Shouldn’t be a surprise. Entirely consistent with precedent.
“Shouldn’t be a surprise. Entirely consistent with precedent”
yep. and “duty to protect” is specifically disclaimed in the laws of some states ... the problem is that if the police have a “duty” to do anything and any outcome is less than perfect, then police departments would have to be disbanded because of the hundreds of thousands of bazillion dollar lawsuits that would constantly be thrown at them ...
and it’s not just police departments that don’t have a “duty”: almost no branch of government has a “duty” ... snow removal is not a “duty” ... smoothly paved roads that are pot-hole free are not a “duty” ... libraries providing books that you like is not a “duty” ... picking up the garbage during a blizzard is not a “duty” ... heck even keeping the electricity, water, natural gas, and waster water removal services operating are not “duties” ...
again, if all of these services and hundreds more were “duties”, then any failure at all, big or small, would provoke unwinnable lawsuits and all government services would have to be halted in the face of millions of of lawsuits ....
the ballot box provides the sole remedy for failures of any government services ... if you don’t like the way things are going, then vote the bastids out ... if the voters are too ignorant to do that, then society as a whole has failed to produce knowledgeable and involved citizens, in which case MUCH more than just a few creaky government services is going to collapse ...