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Good news: police are not liable for doing nothing in response to a threat.
by tedunangst 3y ago
Good news: police are not liable for doing nothing in response to a threat.
- MR4D 3y agoThat thought isn't exactly comforting if you think about it.
- hackerlight 3y agoUvalde shooting comes to mind.
- dylan604 3y agoWe just saw this with the recent court case decision from the cop that did nothing at the Parkland shooting.
- jstarfish 3y ago[flagged]
- HarryHirsch 3y agoThe cops at Parkland couldn't even establish a proper perimeter around the crime scene. After the killer was done running amok he wandered off, got himself a slurpee out of Subway and then had breakfast at McDonalds. They did not even try and identify who was responsible for the shooting. Oh, and even after the shooter had been taken into custody the sheriff still denied access to the scene to emergency medical personnel. There can't be an excuse for that degree of malicious incompetence but the courts gave them one anyway.
- skyyler 3y agoWhat, exactly, are police for?
- Arrath 3y agoFeeding the municipal/county/state coffers with the proceeds of civil forfeiture?
- tcmart14 3y agoAnd putting teenagers in cuffs for small baggies of weed.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- pengaru 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrols
- sneak 3y agoMaintaining the social and economic status quo by any means necessary, legal or otherwise. There's a disruption? They show up and un-disrupt it.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- wildrhythms 3y agoTo protect capital.
- biofunsf 3y agohah I didn't realize that! Though I can see why that makes sense. I edited the above to strikeout liable and changed it to "berated in the media"