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Do the police have an obligation to protect you? | shadyvale.org: "In a word, no. The courts are very clear on this topic in several landmark rulings:
Hartlzer v. City of San Jose
DeShaney v. Winnebago Department of Social Services
Warren v. District of Columbia
Of the three cases the most interesting to me is the third. The short version of the story is as follows: Two women heard their roomate downstairs being attacked by intruders. The two women called the police station and were told that officers were on their way. When their roomates screams stopped they assumed that the police had arrived. They were wrong. For the next 14 hours the women were forced to... (I am sure you can find it on the web if you really want to know.) As expected, the women sued the city. The opinion of the court was that it is a 'fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.'"
Hartlzer v. City of San Jose
DeShaney v. Winnebago Department of Social Services
Warren v. District of Columbia
Of the three cases the most interesting to me is the third. The short version of the story is as follows: Two women heard their roomate downstairs being attacked by intruders. The two women called the police station and were told that officers were on their way. When their roomates screams stopped they assumed that the police had arrived. They were wrong. For the next 14 hours the women were forced to... (I am sure you can find it on the web if you really want to know.) As expected, the women sued the city. The opinion of the court was that it is a 'fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.'"
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