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/StevenStevensonIII 1d ago

Correct take. It’s not that people are mad at all cops bc there’s an occasional bad cop. People are mad that cops protect that bad cop instead of (ironically) self policing. And further, the system protects them and to a certain extent the media does too.

If the apples are capable of calling out a bad cop when they see it, then do it. Otherwise all the apples are implicated in bad apple stuff.

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u/Nesymafdet 1d ago

The system inherently supports its own abuse by those in power, and if anyone does the right thing, they’re often shamed or sanctioned by others who don’t, and forced out of the system, or forced to join the others in abusing the system. I know people who are working to become police in the US and it’s scary because I’d hate for them to be corrupted by the system, especially if their whole purpose is to help people and prevent the trauma they experienced happen to others.