It's sad that most of the top-ranked police videos on YouTube deal with the rare cases where police personnel abuse their power. It's also unfortunate that there are still forces in our culture and media that tend to cast the police in these negative terms. 

As a kid, I didn't dream about a home in the suburbs - because I didn't even know what that looked like. I dreamed about living as close as possible to the police precinct - because that was the safest place in our neighborhood. And when I stayed up at night worrying about how I was going to get to and from school the next day, I used to plan my route based on where I knew the cops would be. I was only a child, but I knew what a police uniform represented: It was the only visible symbol of safety on the street. It meant there were people who came into our neighborhood for the sole purpose of protecting us. 

Putting the safety of others before their own is what most police officers do most of the time. Here is a video that captures that truth in raw footage. Better than any film script, the dash cam tells the story of countless acts of selfless heroism by police personnel that happen every day in our country.


Matt Daniels
Creator and Executive Producer