Gonzales, the Supreme Court has ruled that police agencies are not obligated to protect citizens. In other words, police are well within their rights to pick and choose when to intervene to protect the lives and property of others—even when a threat is apparent. In both of these court ...
Officers are obligated to protect life and property.— St. Louis County PD (@stlcountypd) November 25, 2014 Officers reporting heavy automatic gunfire in area of W. Florissant and Canfield.— St. Louis County PD (@stlcountypd) November 25, 2014 The FAA imposed a temporary...
be injured when the situation warrants it but I cannot force the individual to receive medical attention if they should refuse. Firefighters have a different policy. They are obligated to treat someone for medical attention therefore, the person cannot refuse on certain terms. A small sample size...
Henry David Thoreau in 1849 wrote in his essay, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” that if a law is unjust that one not only has the right to oppose the law, but that they are in fact obligated to break the law. In this light, peaceful resistance to laws not only positively ...
Police is not legally required to protect mere citizens (as courts held many times already). Because of that only terminal ignoramuses consider police activities to be conductive to their personal safety or well-being. Police already extorts from them, and is not obligated to do anything in ...
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And requiring a warrant for police to run facial recognition software would protect our Constitutional rights. Let’s say that a crowd was lawfully demonstrating against the police force itself – this could be because the police are enforcing restrictive gun laws or because the police have misbehav...
The report said: “You stated ..that you had been propositioned but that the suspect had not touched you or physically sexually abused you. You stated that it was verbal comments only. I agree that crimes of such nature are fully within the public interest, however, there has to have be...
Not always, some laws allow a peace officer to carry out a no-warrant arrest. These rules vary and change. The rules are also highly dependent on the extremity of the situation. If the situation is life-threatening, the officer is obligated to do something about it, even outside their pr...
The only person obligated to protect you is you. filobus•January 25, 2012 7:48 AM In America liberty is very important, and for many (most?) people if you have power you have liberty to do what you want to do, so… I don’t know really where this idea will lead… ...