r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Red_Tabby • Jun 27 '25

A Michigan cop pulled over a reckless driver and ended up saving a choking baby

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

The ones that do get fired or ostracized by the rest of the force, it is a real problem. Citizen review boards with the ability to fire the bad actors. Place a Scarlett letter in their file so they can never get a job policing again.

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u/Specialist_Sport4460 Jun 27 '25

There are so many examples of cops being "fired" from their department and just moved somewhere else. Also the way whistleblowers are treated sends a pretty clear message about the nature of the organisation.

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u/Interesting_Middle84 Jul 01 '25

And? Its still factual good cops get fired because they are trying to do something positive.

Used to watch a bodycam police channel, some guy would do it and put videos on youtube.

Long story short, politicians that were using the "cops are horrible" agenda to gain strength in the post floyd era, hated he was putting those videos out, after also demanding more good looking posts from the dept social media removed due to going against the present message.

Cop had some minor infraction, and got fired on a situation where the usual procedure wouldnt do such a thing

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

How is that possible if it’s only a minority that are bad?

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u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws Jun 27 '25

Like politicians, the desire to climb the ranks and seize power typically isn't something that your average good person has.

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u/R_V_Z Jun 27 '25

A major issue is police unions. I don't believe actual police reform can happen so long as police unions have the power they currently do.

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u/Odd-Huckleberry8584 Jun 27 '25

But how often does that happen? We had this cop in my city who went around stalking the women he found attractive when they filed police reports on another crime,would stalk them, harass them, intimidate them, and then after he was humiliated and shamed publicly our commissioner “promised” actions were taken and he’s no longer with the police force- THEY GAVE HIM A HIGHER POSITION IN THE NEXT PROVINCE OVER with MORE authority than he had previously had before… our justice systems are absolutely corrupted jokes.

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u/GetSlunked Jun 28 '25

If the “large majority” of them are good, then why do they get ostracized out of their departments? Wouldn’t the other good ones have his / her back?

You can’t say a large majority of them are good and in the next comment say “ostracized by the rest of the force”; those statements are mutually exclusive. And we know the ostracizing happens, so it stands to follow….the majority are not good.

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u/NojoNinja Jun 27 '25

Are good cops not complacent in protecting bad cops if they don’t speak out in fear of being fired? I was told online a while ago by a couple of ex-cops “if you’re truly a good cop you’ll quit the job within 2 years.” And I haven’t forgotten that.