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 from the film by following one of the earlier drafts of the screenplay. It expanded on Murphy's struggle with being part man and part machine, and his memories. It also included more "humanized" dialogue from RoboCop, as opposed to the minimal, cold dialogue heard in the film. The success of the movie spawned a large franchise, including merchandise, two sequels, , a remake, two animated TV series, a television , video games, and a number of comic book adaptations/crossovers. In January 2018, it was announced that original "RoboCop" writer Ed Neumeier was writing a direct sequel to the 1987 film