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/brontosaurusguy 1d ago

Many police precincts are more like mafia, but their target is tax dollars and in many cases, participation in criminal activity.  If members have their doubts, they know the penalty for being a rat.  How many police die in mysterious ambushes?

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u/gorgewall 1d ago

Of course.

Any "good cop" surrounded by "bad cops" either becomes a bad cop themselves or becomes not a cop. The latter can result from them being harassed into quitting, forced out of the job, forced out of life by coworkers, or "mysteriously abandoned in a dangerous situation".

It's why the system can't be reformed from within. There's no amount of good cops we can dump into precincts that'll somehow overpower what's there. We need people outside of the system who have oversight and control over that system.