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/Goldglove528 1d ago

Most police do good. You only hear about the bad ones because they get more views.

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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/More_food_please_77 1d ago

You're not responsible to fix problems you ultimately can't fix, you're not a bad person for walking past homeless people, sure they should receive help and their problem shouldn't be a thing to begin with, but this is the situation.

If you can become a cop and do good for your community, you're absolutely a good cop, especially considering that it's not really an option to go against the department if it means you getting fired, you can't do as much good then.

Heck you're probably taking up a spot of a potential bad cop. Win/Win.

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u/onFIREbutnotsoFLY 1d ago

idk man, if i see my co-worker abuse their power over our patient and i dont do anything about it im a bad person. hell, i had a co-worker verbally scream at a patient in front of me some while back and i feel like i failed the pt by not reporting it. cops are known to do way worse shit and their co-workers become complicit.

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u/More_food_please_77 23h ago

I understand the feeling of course, it's a basic human response. But if you know for a fact that nothing will change and you will be punished, then what's the point? If you manage to stay you can document things for real change, as well as being a positive influence.

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u/Complex_Condition828 12h ago

this is absolute bs.

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u/More_food_please_77 12h ago

Explain your argument, or where I'm incorrect.

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u/Complex_Condition828 12h ago edited 12h ago

I’m not going to fight you on your weird take. You seem to feel some sort of moral superiority in it. But not reporting a coworker so that you can take up space to be a good guy is crap. The police system is wildly screwed up and instead of taking an honest inventory of all the opportunity for corruption, you make excuses for them to continue to allow hiding bad cops. This is a such a cop out answer. Actually,this is a COP answer and a weak one at that.

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u/More_food_please_77 6h ago

I simply stated what I saw as the objective truth, if you reject it that's fine, but if you don't provide a counter argument then I have no reason to change my view.

I'm making no excuses, I suspect that's your own biased lens you read this through, of course they have a ton to improve on, there's way too much corrpution in way too many disctricts.