police protection and the courts

mrcaz

July 07, 2008 17:30

Help! Iknow that hte courts have ruled on many occasions that the police have no duty to protect the individual but only to the population as a whole. Can any one out there point me to a web sight that I can read these rulings, and has the supreme court ruled on this. Thanks in advance...............

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  wsfiredude

  July 07, 2008 17:41

  Look no further than the Constitution of the United States of America.

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  Highball

  July 07, 2008 18:07

  http://publicrights.org/Kennesaw/PoliceResponsibility.html

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  pickenup

  July 07, 2008 18:12

  Stemming from a Colorado case, on June 27, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the police do not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm.
  
  quote:The decision, with an opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia and dissents from Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, overturned a ruling by a federal appeals court in Colorado. The appeals court had permitted a lawsuit to proceed against a Colorado town, Castle Rock, for the failure of the police to respond to a woman's pleas for help after her estranged husband violated a protective order by kidnapping their three young daughters, whom he eventually killed.
  
  To read the ruling, you will need Adobe, as this link will open a pdf file.
  
  http://tinyurl.com/aqwwg

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  pickenup

  July 07, 2008 18:13

  I see Highball beat me to it. ROFL

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