Posted on 10/18/2006 1:47:32 PM PDT by Fun Bob
An NJ Judge has found that Camden city government, police department, and a 911 operator have no responsibility to prevent the kidnapping and murder of a 27 year old woman. Therefore, none of them can be sued for failing to perform their jobs. This is the same government and court system that denies that same 27-year-old woman the tools to defend her body and life on her own.
What was the basis for the lawsuit?
The 27-year-old victim's mother, Linda Reis, blamed the 911 operator and others for not responding to a call from someone who said he saw two men forcing a woman into a car. [empasis added -ed]
The best advice Dick Codey, president of the NJ Senate and former acting governor had for women in New Jersey to keep themselves safe was:
(Excerpt) Read more at njcsd.org ...
ONLY in NJ, the same day Bloomberg gets car jacked. ROFLMAO
Been California law for a long time.
They have simply become sadly union thugs that only care about their own and getting larger and larger pieces of the pie while doing less and less.
Bloomberg got carjacked?
bump
One of his go-fers did, while running an errand in Hackensack....
Bloomberg got carjacked?
The USSC decided in a case as early as 1857 that the individual had no right to police protection.
I swear to God I would like to flush the State of New Jersey out of the Union. From not being allowed to make a left turn (you have to make a right to make a left, i.e. use the jug-handle) to the small fortune in tolls one must pay on both the Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway, to the Gay Ex-Governor, it turns my stomach!
Apologies to all NJ Freepers......
Yellow tape and chalk only!
This is pretty much settled law throughout the States, and has been or a long time. Police have been continuously held to have no duty toward individual citizens.
All the more reason to exercise one's 2nd amendment rights.
Exactly what Mayor Dinkins told the Jewish community in NY during the rioting.
Because they are protecting and serving *the government* and society as a whole. That's the idea, anyway.
Seriously, though - anyone who's ever thought that the police could be more than backup/clean-up squad/reaction force is sadly delusional. The very nature of their job means that they can't be everywhere.
I think it also came up in the late 60s or early 70s.
Either New York, or California, if memory serves. What it amounted to was, people were calling the police for help from areas where there were riots going on, and the police were either unwilling or unable to respond.
I honestly think it was unwilling, but that could be my bad memory.
Anyway, USSC ruled that you can't sue the cops for NOT coming to your aid.
Go figure.
Chief Wiggum: "Where does it say we Protect you?"
Officer Lou: "Second word on the badge Chief."
Chief Wiggum: "Thanks Princeton Pete."
Wait a minute.....What about Massachusetts.....They go first down the drain, along with their elected reps Kennedy and Kerry.
Apologies to MA FReepers.
To WHAT and serve?
Uh... no, wrong number... this is 9 - 1 ... 2...
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