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 promptly fires Jones, nullifying the protection and allowing RoboCop to shoot Jones, who falls out of a window to his death. Grateful, the Old Man commends RoboCop's shooting and asks what his name is; RoboCop smiles and answers, "Murphy". "RoboCop" was written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. Neumeier stated that he first got the idea of "RoboCop" when he walked with a friend past a poster for "Blade Runner". He asked his friend what the film was about and his friend replied, "It's about a cop hunting robots". For him, this sparked the idea about a robot cop. While