Cops have no obligations to protect private property or your person.
Sure they do, that's why their motto is Serve and Protect. Police officers enforce the law, and we have laws on the books against theft. Therefore it is their job to protect private property. We have laws about assault. That's why if an angry guy is approaching you with a crowbar and an officer is there, he's going to pull out his firearm to shoot the attacker if he doesn't obey the officers commands to drop the weapon.
“Neither the Constitution, nor state law, impose a general
duty upon
police officers or other governmental officials to
protect individual persons from harm — even when they know the harm will occur,” said Darren L. Hutchinson, a professor and associate dean at the University of Florida School of Law.
Attorney Michael Ehline journals to educate the public about their rights as it relates to injury and consumer advocacy in Los Angeles California.
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Warren v. District of Columbia[1] (444 A.2d. 1, D.C. Ct. of Ap. 1981) is a
District of Columbia Court of Appeals case that held that the police do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to specific citizens based on the
public duty doctrine.
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