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 2 "reset" RoboCop's character by turning him back into the monotone-voiced peacekeeper seen early in the first film, despite his reclaiming his human identity and personality by the end of that film. Many were also critical of the child villain Hob; David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews stated, "That the film asks us to swallow a moment late in the story that features Robo taking pity on an injured Hob is heavy-handed and ridiculous (we should probably be thankful the screenwriters didn't have RoboCop say something like, 'Look at what these vile drugs have done to this innocent boy')." Janet Maslin