"My name is Nicholas. What's going going? Tell my mom and dad that I love them, the woman sobbed. No, no, no, please don't do it, the officer said. We care about you. Listen, we care about you. We don't want to see you hurt yourself, okay? We don't want to see you hurt yourself, okay? he repeated. Can I come closer? Can I come closer? Yes? he said before moving toward the woman and grabbing her hands."
"Listen, we care about you. We don't want you to hurt yourself, okay? We don't want you to hurt yourself, okay? Listen, whatever you are going through, we can fix it. We can try to fix it, okay? Take me to the hospital, the woman pleaded. Yes, we'll take you to the hospitalWe can do whatever you want to do, okay? Anything is better than this, okay? Please, please let me help you."
"At that point, members of the NYPD's elite Emergency Services Unit moved in to pull the frightened woman over the guardrail to safety. Fox News's Paul Mauro commented on the scene for Fox Report With Jon Scott. When people think of police work, they always think of enforcement duties and stuff that they see in TV shows and the movies, and everything else, but the truth is, for 99% of a police officer's life it doesn't matter where you work, in any small town or any big city the majority of what you do is going to be service stuff like that."
"Things that you respond to where you are trying to help people in distress, or handling an accident, or a call for something more mundane, but that's the narrative that doesn't drive clicks or sell newspapers. And people lose sight of the fact that every cop in this country who has a career of any length has a story of something like that, it may not entail being on top of a high-rise. And unfortunately, very often it entails gett"
An NYPD body camera recorded officers responding to a suicidal woman perched about 30 floors above the ground on a Brooklyn skyscraper. An initial officer approached slowly, introduced himself, and asked what was happening while repeatedly reassuring her that they cared and did not want her to hurt herself. The woman pleaded to be taken to the hospital, and the officer moved closer and grabbed her hands. Members of the NYPD Emergency Services Unit then pulled her over the guardrail to safety. The incident was framed as evidence that most police work involves service and helping people in distress rather than enforcement alone.
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