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To: Anti-Bubba182

What are the penalties for law enforcement officers who abandon their duties during a situation like this?


9 posted on 09/04/2005 12:57:47 AM PDT by Truthsayer20
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To: Truthsayer20
What are the penalties for law enforcement officers who abandon their duties during a situation like this?

Dismissal is about all you can do.

27 posted on 09/04/2005 1:04:35 AM PDT by konaice
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To: Truthsayer20
What are the penalties for law enforcement officers who abandon their duties during a situation like this?

I doubt there are civil or criminal penalties for individual officers, but the city of NO is a different matter. You can bet the ranch that the trial lawyers are salivating right now.

60 posted on 09/04/2005 1:24:10 AM PDT by Ken H
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What are the penalties for law enforcement officers who abandon their duties during a situation like this?

Dismissal. It is quite firmly established (for more than a century) that the police have no responsibility to do much more than make records of criminal complaints. They are not under any legal obligation to protect you.

99 posted on 09/04/2005 1:44:42 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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There was a story on CNN that one policeman in uniform walked into the convention center mess, walked up to one individual in the crowd, shot him in the head, and then left.

This sounds like the first page of a Ludlum novel.

Anybody know more about that incident?

It sounds like the police lost command and control.
159 posted on 09/04/2005 2:27:50 AM PDT by cgbg (A cigar a day keeps secular Puritans away.)
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What are the penalties for law enforcement officers who abandon their duties during a situation like this?

Simple. If you are white you are fired. If you are black, nothing.


177 posted on 09/04/2005 4:22:01 AM PDT by DH
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