I like that officer. Ain't playing favorites.

hahaha

Okay... guess we misjudged the guy. Now I feel bad. XP

Good to see he's not some biased douchebag.

I get in line for us musjudging guys.

Agree to your last sentence. :)

I didn't want to play into the trope. There's enough of that in the news IRL.

Your art made us rethink our own and hurried thoughts. Maybe we are able to learn something from that.

That is one of the good things good art does. So thank you for that, Frostclaw. <3

Okay...first. Mr. Frostclaw. I want to say "Thank you" for showing/sharing this rather fun and surprisingly intricate story/comic with us
Second...CURSE YOU FOR BEING TO DAMNED GOOD AT THE SWITCHAROO! I honestly didn't like the guard and then you make him out to be just doing his job!

I've been enjoying trying to consistently subvert expectations and stereotypes.

good ending!

so unexpected... I want to think there are officers like him in real life... :3

There are. I know some of them personally here in Germany.

I can honestly vouch for a few myself here in the US. (The fact that my Fursona is a Phantom Thief aside... Ehehehe...)

Even more if my last Uber driver's stories of how bad the officers were in his home country (Russia) were had been true. Mind you, that was a few years ago and I only asked him what he liked about living here. His response was, "The police actually do their job. {Back in Russia} you'd have to bribe them to get a 50% chance that they'll even do anything."

It is good to sharpen ones view from time to time to see the good in the world.

The evil, the bad things that bother us, is so much easier to recognize and therefore so many people tend to see the world as an ugly place.

But if we train ourselves in seeing the good and also doing good ourselves we all can do our little part to make the world a better place.

So thank you, Cobalt, for sharing your good experience. I also bet that there are many good cops in Russia. That driver you had a talk to just hat the bad luck to experience the not that cool guys in his home country.

Everywhere on the world there are good people. We just have to quit the focus of the loud and ugly ones and should concentrate on finding the whispering good in the world.

I agree. However, while I'm sure there are good cops in Russia, I'd think that they're also few and far between. Remember the person that presented me with this information was from Russia, thus he has experience from both sides. Though, admittedly, this means my opinion is less reliable as I've only had good experiences, though in contrast my brother's always gotten pulled over, so... My point is: Just like how one can focus too much on the negatives of the world, one can also be a tad optimistic as well.

It's also far too easy for people to develop a bias depending upon where we live. A good way to help sharpen one's views is for one to remember that not everyone in the world (for lack of better wording) lives in the "same world". Challenging the assumption that what's common place for one is not so common for another.

For example (and to use something less politically charged), The United States is huge compared to most other countries. Many from Europe don't quite grasp exactly how large until they're actually here. The State of Texas is roughly the same size as France.

Also, thank you. It's not often I actually get to talk to someone who is somewhat reasonable, let alone optimistic. I really should spend more time looking for people like you. Thus, also thank you for the advice.

That person is from Russia. That is true. Also that person is only one person in ... how many million people are living in that more than huge country of russia again? That guy left his country. It is seldom the ones that are happy with their home who are leaving, eh? So perhaps his personal view might be a little biased as well? ;)

You see, your point about most people in Europe don't understand how big the USA is can be exactly taken for the size of Russia.

I won't judge neither if "most" of police officers of the USA nor Russia nor elswhere are crap or saints just because I read stuff in newspapers or had the possibility to talk to one person from a country.

If there was scientifically done studies and if they use hard facts by looking at thousands of cases to see if police was acting okay or not okay I might start to judge without having personal experience. The world is big and you cannot be everywhere in person and have to develope the skill to get to a well based opinion anyways if you want to be a grown-up and reasonable person in life. But without further facts I just pretend to be switzerland and remain neutral to that case we are talking about.

As someone who's got a couple troublemakers and a cop in the family, I've seen this play out irl.

The common expectation is that the cop is going to immediately exploit their position to run defense for their law-breaking kin. That's not always the case. Sometimes the relative who became law enforcement grew up sick and tired of their deadbeat family member(s) casually being a menace and making the household look bad. Sometimes the cop WANTS to see their deadbeat relatives locked up for some long desired catharsis.

And in this case, sometimes the cop just takes their oath seriously.

Yeah, I wanted it to play out differently than expectations and wanted a character who really was just a cop trying to do a job. It's clear he has let things slide a few times but has limited patience.