RoboCop (character) deaths of many police officers in the precinct. Alex Murphy's police file (from the first RoboCop film) reads as follows: "OD5839484E09" "Murphy, Alex J." "548 Primrose Ln," "Detroit, MI" "Grade: 1 00 33" DECEASED "Service: 7" "Merit:" "Miranda Award" "GD Conduct" "BRVRY" RoboCop is programmed to follow three main "prime directives" (accompanied by a mysterious fourth) based on the ""To Protect and to Serve"" motto of the Los Angeles Police Department and many other police forces, and which are comparable with Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics". The First Directive is the "moral" directive programmed: it establishes RoboCop as a
RoboCop (comics) in the actual film "RoboCop 2". This would continue in the Dark Horse comics.) The stories told within these issues take place between the second and third "RoboCop" films. Entering a Marvel Universe, though not the main superhero universe by Marvel, "RoboCop"s futuristic setting is expanded with more futuristic elements like gangs riding on hover bikes, urban droids carrying out public services like waste disposal, and the fact that almost anyone with the know-how or money can create a giant killer robot. About mid-way through the comic's run, pressure from fan letters convinced Marvel to eliminate some of the more