Police Officer Saves a Life Part II

[Warpaladin]

In the past few weeks there have been tons of threads pointing out the bad police officers. On February 20th 2014 PRE 9-11 created a thread showcasing some of the news that's been going around where cops saved somebody's life.

So I decided to create this thread showcasing more cops who saved lives. Police officers are not generally bad people but are perceived to be terrible people because of the few who are not doing there jobs correctly.


Observant NYPD Cop Notices Woman Choking In Her Car, Saves Her Life

Rookie Port Authority cop saves man attempting to jump off GWB

Chicago Cop Saves Newborn With CPR

Calumet City Cop Saves Baby From Burning Building

Prince George's County Police Officer Saves Life of 14-Year-Old Boy

Hero cop saves man from burning car

Part I of Police Officer Saves a Life.

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In the past few weeks there have been tons of threads pointing out the bad police officers. On February 20th 2014 PRE 9-11 created a thread showcasing some of the news that's been going around where cops saved somebody's life.

So I decided to create this thread showcasing more cops who saved lives. Police officers are not generally bad people but are perceived to be terrible people because of the few who are not doing there jobs correctly.


Observant NYPD Cop Notices Woman Choking In Her Car, Saves Her Life

Rookie Port Authority cop saves man attempting to jump off GWB

Chicago Cop Saves Newborn With CPR

Calumet City Cop Saves Baby From Burning Building

Prince George's County Police Officer Saves Life of 14-Year-Old Boy

Hero cop saves man from burning car

So basically cops doing the job they signed up for. Do we need one for every profession?

[Blueobelisk]

The majority of cops are good.

[Warpaladin]

So basically cops doing the job they signed up for. Do we need one for every profession?

That's not the point I'm trying to make at all.

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That's not the point I'm trying to make at all.

The reason "In the past few weeks there have been tons of threads pointing out the bad police officers" is because when you ask someone for their license and you shoot them when they turn around to get it you're doing it wrong and it makes the news.

[Warpaladin]

The reason "In the past few weeks there have been tons of threads pointing out the bad police officers" is because when you ask someone for their license and you shoot them when they turn around to get it you're doing it wrong and it makes the news.

And I totally agree with you, what I'm getting at is most cops aren't bad people and people seem to forget that.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

The reason "In the past few weeks there have been tons of threads pointing out the bad police officers" is because when you ask someone for their license and you shoot them when they turn around to get it you're doing it wrong and it makes the news.

Except the majority of the threads like painting all of the cops as bad. We all know WHY they make the news but making a thread about good cops isn't bad and your posts seem to imply you have a beef with this thread in particular.

[WintersLegion]

Yeah I understand what your doing if all you see is stories about someone in a profession screwing up or gone bad than you start to expect them all to be that way and with how it is now that's really all you see about cops the stories of when they do good don't get spread around even when they earn a medal.

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your posts seem to imply you have a beef with this thread in particular.

Seems pointless to point out when someone does their job correctly. What's next fireman puts out fire?

[Spectral]

In the past few weeks there have been tons of threads pointing out the bad police officers. On February 20th 2014 PRE 9-11 created a thread showcasing some of the news that's been going around where cops saved somebody's life.

You know the difference? Saving people's lives is quite literally their job. I've worked in biomedical research medical software; the things these industries do routinely save lives. You know what happens if we fuck up and kill someone? Huge news, huge penalties, bad things happen. Do you know how much worse it would be if we deliberately killed someone?

It's not news when someone with an important job does their job. It is news when they fuck it up and people die.

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Seems pointless to point out when someone does their job correctly. What's next fireman puts out fire?

Exactly - if a fireman turns out to be a pyromaniac, that's a headline. If he puts out a fire, not so much.

Of course, there's exceptional deeds that can happen in the context of routinely heroic jobs (a surgeon nailing a tough surgery, a fireman going into a risky spot, etc.), but it's going to be a bigger item of discussion when there's a pattern of malfeasance in a profession.

[Dendrek]

It's a trick! Two of those are the same link.

[ksiyas]

So basically cops doing the job they signed up for. Do we need one for every profession?

No, just for cops because they are the ones being wrongly portrayed as ALL of them being ruthless killers.

[Dendrek]

You know the difference? Saving people's lives is quite literally their job. I've worked in biomedical research medical software; the things these industries do routinely save lives. You know what happens if we fuck up and kill someone? Huge news, huge penalties, bad things happen. Do you know how much worse it would be if we deliberately killed someone?

It's not news when someone with an important job does their job. It is news when they fuck it up and people die.

Problem is that media saturation of the bad leads to a disproportionate impression (read "confirmation bias") about how dangerous and corrupt cops are. You can't deny the sociological consequence of one-sided reporting. It's precisely why ratings-based news reporting (sadly, nearly all news) turns average citizens who have literally almost nothing to fear in their everyday lives into paranoid fear mongers, always on the lookout for the boogieman (terrorists, gang bangers, disease, democrats, etc).

[potis]

This thread will go places or get locked rather quickly.

Small fact, no one cares when they do their job properly, its when they dont.

All those videos and accusations are against american police officers simply because they dont have a decent choosing method therefor they have many bad apples and since there are cameras everywhere, things get out and the accusations happen.

They are justified too, most of the videos show a murder that gets shrugged off "Because he was doing his job"

[Mahourai]

And I totally agree with you, what I'm getting at is most cops aren't bad people and people seem to forget that.

American police culture as a whole is bad, though. It's a machine that generates bad people. Sometimes it fails - this does not exonerate the machine.

[Deleted]

The entire reason for a police officer to exist is to benefit the community they're a part of. That's the only reason they're there for. They're not there to protect their own family, they're not there to cover their own asses, they're there to benefit the community they're a part of. Else they wouldn't be there.

When a cop goes and shoots someone without cause, that's pretty much as far as you can get from what they're there for. You can't, in any way, cancel that by showing a story of a cop who does what he's supposed to do. If you have a cop, completely and utterly betraying why he's even a cop, by killing an innocent, then you'd have to go pretty goddamn far on the "good scale" to cancel that out.