Do Police Have a Duty To Protect Individuals?

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-25 15:27:02 | Updated at 2024-10-25 17:29:52 2 hours ago

Do Police Have a Duty To Protect Individuals?
Ehline Law Firm ^ | Michael Ehline

Posted on 10/25/2024 8:22:45 AM PDT by EBH

We Americans have no general civil right to sue the police for failure to provide protection. In a nutshell, you cannot sue a government agency or a school district unless it’s done within a certain period of time after suffering an injury or loss. Even then, you can only sue the police or the Department of Social Services for certain things.

And providing you with your own personal protection services is not law enforcement’s function. In essence, since these are the king’s men, they are his sovereign representatives, shielded under the ancient doctrine of sovereign immunity.

Time and time again, left-wing politicians have argued that we don’t need private guns since we have police while simultaneously asserting we must also defund the police because of “systemic racism.” In a nutshell, their advocates at the New York Times, Atlantic, Washington Post, CNN, Mother Jones, etc., argue that socialism and a welfare state are incompatible with self-defense rights.

Those on the right argue we have a Second Amendment to guard against a corrupt government and to protect our families and businesses. In the middle, everyday people try to make sense of it all. I am Los Angeles personal injury attorney Michael Ehline.

I am a world-famous, award-winning attorney, honorably discharged U.S. Marine, legal historian, and expert on gun laws and firearms safety. Below, I will present the law of municipal police and cover why police have no general duty to protect individuals. Let’s go!

(Excerpt) Read more at ehlinelaw.com ...

TOPICS: Education; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: dontgetstupid115; police

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As we head into the actual election day(s) and the election return days(battle), let us remain cognizant of what the police or any government agency is responsible to protect and serve. While this article is a very long read, it is indeed chock full of good insights and things to think about.

Why am I posting? Because there can be some 'salty' talk on FR at times. And because of a recent experience of my own that left me basically stranded in an unknown part of town after a sideswipe hit-skip accident, with a dispatcher telling to leave the scene and drive to the first district station to report it. Basically...no officer was coming to the scene. But...that story is for another post on another day.

1 posted on 10/25/2024 8:22:45 AM PDT by EBH

To: EBH

NO!

Castle Rock vs Gonzales.

1. Police have no duty to respond.
2. If police do respond, they have no duty to take heroic actions.

3 posted on 10/25/2024 8:24:44 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)

To: EBH

Whatever happened to the old “To Protect and Serve” motto?

4 posted on 10/25/2024 8:26:07 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)

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