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/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/honuworld 1d ago

This. I put it this way: If you are a good cop and you see a bad cop do something bad, and you don't report it, now YOU are a bad cop too.

This has got me banned all over reddit.

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u/More_food_please_77 1d ago

Not necessarily true, let's assume the force is corrupt and you will get fired for reporting them, then if you do it there's one less good cop on the force, likely to be replaced by a bad cop.

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u/PeaceCertain2929 1d ago

And the good cop is also replaced by a bad cop by staying: themselves.