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Protect and serve my ass rule
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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Warren v. DC: "Police have no obligation to protect people."
Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales: "Police have no obligation to enforce the law."
Heien v. North Carolina: "Police have no obligation to know the law."
I didn't believe you, so I looked up those cases. While there's a little more nuance to the cases than your summaries, you are pretty spot on. We are all cursed with this disgraceful knowledge now.
This is a bizarro version of the three monkeys.
Protect no people, enforce no laws, know no laws?
so they're basically useless to us
They have no legal obligation to be useful, let's put it that way.
There are cops and departments which take an active and sincere interest in community policing and social justice.... but power tends to corrupt, and the almost complete lack of obligation or oversight combined with the weird hero-worship of the right-wing means most cops and departments are not interested in anything except the perpetuation of their own power.
But not to the rich