[Q-ManRN]

I wanted to re-post this important article. Following a gun battle between thugs near my house, I began to investigate the legal expectations of the police. Being raised in a liberal family, I was shocked to discover that the police have no legal duty to protect me. I realized that I was legally responsible for protecting myself.

Please read this excellent article and give it to people who think that dialing 9-1-1 is going to keep them safe. The author also has a book available on Amazon.com.

[basil]

Dial 911-—and die waiting.

Stay safe, stay armed. Illegal in your state? You have to take your chances, I guess.

[MUDDOG]

Or you can hire a security system who will dial 9-1-1 for you (i.e., they’re pretty worthless).

[NVDave]

Better yet, just give them the majority decision in Castle Rock v. Gonzales, (2005). The case involved a woman with a restraining order demanding to know why, when she called the police to tell them to go get her children from her estranged husband, the police did nothing and her children ended up dead.

The SCOTUS found that even with a court order, the police have no duty to protect. Never mind someone who just up and calls 911.

[ToastedHead]

Sometimes it needs to happen to you, and then you get it. I’m just a white suburban mom who grew up in lib NY. I became an NRA member after I was robbed at knifepoint. The whole thing was long over by the time I got to dial 911.

[SkyDancer]

Where I live (when not in Oz) it’ll take a deputy almost 45 mins to get to us if they’re not busy somewhere else. We don’t have a problem with that. Gives us plenty of time to take care of things .......

[SkyDancer]

It’s also interesting why they have the logo on their cruisers that state: “To Protect And To Serve” ....like who?

[jonose]

The movie American blackout was a joke in that it showed police driving around. In a real blackout/looting/riot, the police would be protecting selves first.

[SkyPilot]

So these guys won't protect me or my family, but they want to continue these "no knock" midnight raids on people's homes......the same people who pay their salaries via property taxes.

[pallis]

First of all, the kind of big government needed to protect citizens from criminals would be too evil and too colossal for even a semblance of freedom to survive. Second of all, cops with guns are proving to be as bad or worse than criminals with guns. We put our lives at risk anytime we involve cops in anything. Free people are better off taking responsibility for their own protection.

[SamAdams76]

Even if the police were obligated to respond to “911” calls, it still wouldn’t matter in the vast majority of emergencies. It’s not like there is going to be a manned police car staged in every neighborhood waiting for a 911 call to come in.

[Doug Loss]

As I've always said, the police and the fire department are the second responders. I am the first responder.

[lapsus calami]

 

government and the police in most localities....in most states the government and police owe no legal duty to protect individual

 

"Most localities", "In most states"? Think the author missed out with that, it's federal. NO locality could absorb the legal liability if they assumed responsibility to protect individuals and their property. Decades of case law explain that in detail -

 

Riss v. City of New York, 22 N.Y.2d 579, 293 NYS2d 897, 240 N.E.2d 860 (N.Y. Ct. of Ap. 1958)

 

Keane v. City of Chicago, 98 Ill. App.2d 460, 240 N.E.2d 321 (1968)

 

Silver v. City of Minneapolis, 170 N.W.2d 206 (S.Ct. Minn. 1969)

 

Simpson's Food Fair v. Evansville, 272 N.E. 2d 871 (Ind.Ct. of Ap. 1971)

 

Sapp v. City of Tallahassee, 348 So.2d 363 (Fla.Ct. of Ap. 1977)

 

Weutrich v. Delia, 155 N.J. Super 324, 326, 382 A.2d 929, 930 (1978)

 

Chapman v. City of Philadelphia, 434 A.2d 753 (Sup.Ct. Penn. 1981)

 

Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981)

 

Davidson v. City of Westminster, 32 C.3d 197, 185 Cal.Rptr. 252, 649 P.2d 894 (S.Ct. Cal. 1982)

 

Bowers v. DeVito, 686 F.2d 61 (7th Cir. 1982)

 

Morgan v. District of Columbia, 468 A.2d 1306 (D.C. Ct. of Ap. 1983)

 

Morris v. Musser, 478 A.2d 937 (1984)

 

Calogrides v. City of Mobile, 475 So.2d 560 (S.Ct. A;a. 1985)

 

[shankbear]

I say dial 1911 in .45acp.

[Bryan24]

Dialing 9-1-1 only accelerates the investigation of the crime.

[skinkinthegrass]

a responsible LEO person (or department) should do that anyways..

[Vendome]

I dial 911 with a 1 in front of it and voila! 230 grain Jacketed Hollow Points HTP by Hornady dispatch my call for help and turn in agressor into a leaking sieve and a pile of useless meat.

[StaffiT]

Often repeated, but here it is again for the Low Info Boobs:

It’s 3AM, someone is breaking in…

Do you want to wait a Lifetime for the police to clean up and investigate a crime long since commissioned..

Or would you rather be able to defend yourself.

The gun grabbers don’t want you to have that lifesaving option, and make no mistake, they will not rest until the Commonsense Civil Right of self-defense has been eliminated.

[RWB Patriot]

“A Dictator? Why, he makes love to beautiful women, drinks champagne, enjoys life and never works. He makes speeches to the people promising them plenty, gives them nothing and takes everything. *That’s* a Dictator.”

Mr. Ixnay, “You Natzy Spy”

Sound familiar?

[FBD]

good article, and an eye opener for the liberals...if they would actually read it.