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 reflected on how the film's script is starting to play into reality: "We are now living in the world that I was proposing in "RoboCop" … how big corporations will 'take care of us' and … how they won't." Two of the primary themes explored by "RoboCop" are the media and human nature. On the Criterion Edition DVD commentary track, executive producer Jon Davison and writer Edward Neumeier both relate the film to the decay of American industry from the 1970s through the early 1980s, with the abandoned "Rust Belt style" factories that RoboCop and Clarence Boddicker's gang use as