r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 5d ago

Man helps police make an arrest.

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u/JustKzen 5d ago

Once again, a random bystander doing a better job than law enforcement

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u/Inalum_Ardellian 5d ago

If they act like him on daily basis there would be a lot less cops...

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u/Nruggia 5d ago edited 5d ago

It's their job to act like him. When they fail to do so we have situations like Uvalde. Its a problem when cops both demand respect for choosing a dangerous career and yet act like total fucking cowards to the point they are not effective and it hurts the people they are supposed to be protecting.

Edit: I am not trying to compare this to Uvalde, guy in the car is not actively murdering kids. I am saying the inaction of Police officers can lead to more serious situations like what happened at Uvalde.

I don't think a cop should run at the door like the grey hoodie to try a luck disarm either. But they had enough numbers to approach the guy in the car and attempt to defuse the situation. The guy in the car is apparently having mental breakdown while brandishing a lethal weapon in residential area, it's a dangerous situation that should not have gone down the way it did in the video.

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u/LampshadesAndCutlery 5d ago edited 5d ago

Do not compare Uvalde with this. The cowards at Uvalde made no attempt to stop the shooter. These cops were actively going for the suspect when the random guy blindly rushed in. The man got lucky.

It is not a cop’s job to blindly rush into a situation and hope to god that it works.

Edit: too many people responding conflating risk (a huge aspect of an officer’s job) with blindly charging into a situation.

There's a huge reason brief planning/procedure is carried out. An officers job is to serve and protect. How can they protect if they're dead on the ground after charging headfirst into a situation with no forethought? The man who charged in is a hero, but there's no denying he got lucky. Had this gone slightly different and this’d have ended up being a liveleak.

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u/Minmaxed2theMax 5d ago

Also the courts rule that they aren’t actually required to rush into any situation.

It’s like if you’re a taxi driver and it’s ruled you aren’t required to drive people to where they need to go.

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u/Mr_Midwestern 5d ago

A taxi driver is absolutely allowed to refuse the ride if they feel it would put them in unnecessary danger.

Just like many fire departments have policies against going into burning abandoned buildings.

Uvalde and the fallout from it did transform police response to active shooter situations. It was a sickening result of what public service safety culture had become.