Posted on 03/05/2014 8:42:36 AM PST by Teotwawki
New York City policemen are under no obligation to protect the city’s denizens from harm. So says the city in response to a lawsuit by a man who was attacked on the subway by a man with a knife. Joseph Lozito said police officers Terrance Howell and Tamara Taylor, who were on the subway at the same time, ignored Maksim Gelman as he stormed about the subway in a drug-fueled rage. They even dismissed other passengers who tried to warn them about Gelman’s actions. Lozito identified Gelman as the man who approached him telling him he was going to die before plunging a knife into Lozito’s face. Lozito wrestled Gelman to the ground — enduring multiple stab wounds to the back of the head while doing so — and held him until Howell tapped him on the shoulder and told him to get up. Howell claims — and the city is backing him — that it was he who subdued Gelman. Lozito sued the city saying the officers’ lack of action was to blame for the attack. The city is refusing to settle on the grounds that its officers had no duty to protect train passengers, but “that doesn’t detract from the Police Department’s public safety mission.” It is cliché to say that when seconds count, police are only minutes away. But it appears it doesn’t matter whether police are near or far. In an increasing number of cases, it’s obvious police care more about their own safety than the public they claim they want “to protect and serve.”
Im off to find a verbatin reading of the OATH that NYPD lives by!
Thank you
In a similar fashion, citizens are not obligated to protect police when they are in trouble, either.
And don’t you dare to defend yourself either.
Signed,
Warren Wilhelm DeBlazio
“To Serve and Protect”: what happened there New York the City PD?
It is NYC...... It was an American city America
So the cops don’t have an obligation to protect you...and you can’t have a gun to protect yourself... and we are wondering why the predatory class is in the driver’s seat?
The cops are not on our side, folks.
On my many rides on the NYC subway system I've seen (more than a few times) an official notice from the city that it's illegal to posses a toy gun that looks like a real one.I kid you not!
Agreed, their obligation is to collect revenue by any means necessary, take bribes, steal property and kill anyone they please.
In this premise, cities would be better off allowing those that want to be, be armed.
Even if you ‘restrict’ to those that are ‘worthy’ of it due to past indiscretions etc.
Let that happen and
the ‘bad guys’ can kill each other off (they are doing that now).
you can FIRE all police other than small, investigative units, to solve crimes AFTER they are committed. (listen to them and they will tell you that their job is to ‘solve’ crimes and their presence works as a deterrent).
In this case, it is hard to say their presence ‘deters’ crime as the officers involved did NOTHING (according to story).
We don’t know what RESTRICTIONS are put on the officers to actually STOP and talk to someone acting ‘strange’.
How many of the people now ‘complaining’ the Police did nothing would have been ‘screaming’ the Police were using excessive force for stopping and questioning that ‘obviously sick man(woman)’ that was acting strangely?
Of course some of the more ‘Casper Milquetoast’ types among the present LEO’s probably interpret NO STOP AND FRISK to mean NO STOP and/or NO FRISK.
Hey - the Farce Enlawment orifices (FEOs) went home safe to their families that night...
On their days off.Ride around extorting money from travelers .
The police are there to:
-Protect their institution and the governmental body that funds them.
-To generate revenue for that governmental body.
-To enforce the laws that governmental body deems upon its people.
Protecting someone in the course of the above is incidental and at the officers’ discretion.
This incident is an example why the Founding States had made the 2nd Amendment. Instead of making third-party police protection a right, the Founders had made the 2nd Amendment to clarify that it is up to individual citizens to protect themselves by bearing arms.
One word: Litigation
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