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Police NOT OBLIGATED to Protect
From: Lawman
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ARTICLE II - BILL OF RIGHTS
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wel? regulate? Militia? bein? necessar? t? th? security
of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear
Arms, shall no be infringed.
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Police Have No Duty To Protect Individuals (1982)
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An appelliate court has ruled that police were not
negligent in failing to protect three women from two
knife-wielding assailants. The case (D.C. 444 A. 2d 1)
stemmed from a 1975 incident in which two men broke into
the house shared by three women. Two of them called police
after hearing the other scream for help.
A police dispatcher assured them assistance was on the
way. A squad car arriving on the scene, merely circled the
house without stopping, and the dispatcher failed to relay
a second call for help. The iintruders, discoving the other
two women, repeatedly raped and beat all three over the
next fourteen hours.
In dismissing the suit, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed
what it called the "well-established" and "uniformly
accepted rule" that "a government and its agents are
under no general duty to provide public services, such
as police protection to any particular individual
citizen." The court held that police have a duty only
to the "public at large and not to individual members
of the community."
Similar decisions across the nation place citizens
in a dilemma, as more states are adopting stronger
limitation on the right of self defense, compounded by
the nationwide drive to place restrictive gun control
law on the books.
If court rulings continue to hold that police have
no duty to protect the individual, as ownersship of
fire-arms faces increasing restraints. U.S. citizens
will ultimately find themselves completely at the mercy
of violence-prone criminals.
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