A few years ago, a guy walked out into a shallow part of SF Bay. The water came up to his neck. He just stood there, about 70 feet from shore. Nonviolent, nonspeaking, clearly mentally ill. He was watched by cops, who didn't go get him, and who blocked others from getting him. Why? They determined it was unsafe to try, and they didn't have coast guard certification in boat rescues. So after a few hours, the guy collapses and dies of hypothermia.
Sorry bud, no duty to help. No charges against the cops, no laws violated. Zip.
Cops do what they want - and that's all they do. If they're heroes (and like I said, they often are) then it's voluntary (which makes them even bigger heroes, if you think about it).
That's just the way it is.
No, an officer doesn’t have an obligation to toss his life away in a stupid manner. However, you brought this up on the situation with a guy climbing the building as if the officers had no obligation whatsoever to respond and try to get the guy off the building.
That is clearly not true. They are known as first responders, and it is their duty to try to get this guy off the building. Once again, no one else did, and I didn’t either demand they do something stupid to get him off the building.
None the less, they do have to respond and do their best to get the guy off the building. And by golly, that’s exactly what these guys did in this instance.
I guess that kind of pops your bubble huh.