r/nextfuckinglevel • u/bendubberley_ • 1d ago

A police officer in Mexico prevents someone's suicide attempt, on a bridge, with no safety equipment.

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u/Ellusive1 1d ago

One bad apple is all it takes

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u/PMMEURPYRAMIDSCHEME 1d ago

The saying is one bad apple ruins the bunch, not one bad apple makes the bunch smell bad. Because if you don't take out the bad apple the rot spreads. Any long time cop is guilty of tolerating the bad cops, and that makes them a bad cop too.

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u/landon0605 1d ago

But these are people not apples. People that have families to feed and bills to pay. Cops, unlike most jobs would require you to completely relocate your family to find a new job. You can't just go grab a job with the XYZ competitor down the road if you see something you don't like. I'd also argue you don't go blow up your entire work place every time you see something that you would deem unethical. I'd also bet that if you have any work experience, you know how difficult it is to get someone fired even if you decide to be the squeeky wheel and you're actually in a position to fire someone.

Shitty cops should be punished (arrested, jailed given death penalties. Idgaf to be clear), but to lump every cop together based on the shittiest outlier is what children with no experience in the real world do.

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u/Ellusive1 1d ago

Except in America you can literally murder people and get desk duty or transferred to another department with your record sealed. If it’s so easy to protect dirty cops the same protections could easily be afforded to the good ones.

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u/landon0605 1d ago

They do. That's unions for you. Always making sure the lowest denominator has the same rights as the highest.

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u/PeaceCertain2929 1d ago

The police union is not a union anymore than the nazis were socialists. It’s a name for a group of thugs trying to pretend they’re anything but.