We disagree on what it means to "protect"... You must mean "insulate".
And, yes, I do sorta find it hard to find in my copy of the Constitution. Most of it had to do with personal rights, and family rights. Those are things that few people acknowledge, these days. Can you imagine, people used to beat the crap out of their kids, with their hands, switches and belts... and nobody got sent to jail! The high school I graduated from, had a "board of education" with holes drilled. It was wielded by Mr. Fred Capps, RIP, and hit my butt just once.
Why is it your business, if my kid rides his bike into the street, and gets creamed by oncoming traffic? Why is it your business, if I decide to go to the beach, and leave my child out in the sunlight, all day, to get third-degree burned? Should I go to jail, for any of these actions? You apparently think they must. They endanger children. Got to make somebody pay, "for the chil'run"!
You must want a nanny state. I have no problem with prosecuting those who actually do harm. I can't be the guy to decide, though, who gets split by the sword...
WE have an obligation to prosecute criminals. Our 'feel good' nanny state requires us to give our prisoners cable tv and rec rooms. What's wrong with rocks and sledge hammers? Rape was a capital crime, and was punishable by death. Now, a murderer gets a 2 year sentence, and rapists are realeased and repeating their crimes, and repeating their crimes, and repeating their crimes, then escaping back to Mexico.
Of course, on such a high profile thing, lots of energy and money is wasted. But, a crime was committed. It was not an intention, not a thought, nor a plan...
Send your kids to public schools, so they can learn sex-ed, get drugged into oblivion, and have their 'feelings' reinforced. Keep supporting your local sherriff, with his "Click it or Ticket" campaign. Don't fight it. It's a "law we can live with" (that really enhances the gubmints bottom line)....
A father was arrested for kidnapping the other day, I read. He objected to the guy that wanted to screw date his daughter, and there was no law to help him. He is in jail, now, and the guy can have at her, as often as she can get an abortion! They don't have to ask Pop!
I can empathize. I have three daughters. There have been a number of young 'suitors' whom I have discouraged... And I would do whatever it takes to protect them from predators.
I teach mine how to drive a race car, and shoot a gun. I teach them to stand in the face of the enemy, and kick the guy in the balls.
I tell them to not listen to fools, and shout back at the witch, "we're not your village idiots"!
Are you?
PS- I do not equate LEO with COMMUNITY. They are officers of the law, only. It is their job to SERVE and PROTECT. I think that means from "life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness!