”To Protect and to Serve.”
You see that statement attached to many law-enforcement signs, badges and vehicles across America.
Don’t believe a word of it.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in its landmark decision in DeShaney v. Winnebago County, declared that the Constitution does not require states and local governments to protect its citizens from criminal harm.
Other court decisions and state laws also have held that cops don’t have to do a damned thing to help you when you are in danger.
Whoa.
What do taxes supporting law-enforcement agencies actually buy? Why have 911 dispatch operations if responses aren’t guaranteed for genuine emergencies?
No wonder so many Americans own and occasionally use deadly weapons to protect themselves and their property. (23 DECEMBER 2007)
