[MtnClimber]

Everyone should remember that the police have no duty to protect them.

[Leaning Right]

> Everyone should remember that the police have no duty to protect them. <

And evidently the Uvalde police have no duties at all. How they could just stand outside in the hallway and listen to children die, that is simply beyond my comprehension.

[Gaffer]

Yep....only there to enforce the law, and it doesn’t have to be to prevent a crime. USSC already decided that..

[Roccus]

Everyone should remember that the police have no duty to protect them

Living in NYC at the time, I learned that fact as a result of the Crown Heights riots of 1991.

It has always amazed me how few people knew or understood that fact in the decades after....some sadly, continue in that ignorance.

[DownInFlames]

As decided by SCOTUS in 2005.

[Oystir]

Very true. People see the cop cars with stickers that say, “To Protect and Serve,” it ain’t a legal obligation or duty.

[aquila48]

“Everyone should remember that the police have no duty to protect them.”

So what is the duty of a cop? And why don’t states and localities make protection the most important duty by passing such a law.

The fact that the constitution doesn’t have such a clause, doesn’t mean localities can’t enact it. It leaves it up to the states and municipalities to implement it (or not).

In the military “dereliction of duty” is a “crime”. The police force is a paramilitary organization. It too should be subject to such a discipline.