Court Rulings that say Police DO NOT have obligation to Protect Citizens from Violent Criminals
- Written by: John Galt
- Published in 2nd Amendment
whatreallyhappened.com | Editors Note: Contrary to popular belief or real facts, police are not obligated to protect you from the criminals. Here below are cases that only go to prove that the best defensive measures are when citizens are willing and able to defend themselves until police arrive if at all.
Warren v. District of Columbia - 1981 – Two women were upstairs in a townhouse when they heard their roommate, a third woman, being attacked downstairs by intruders. They phoned the police several times and were assured that officers were on the way. After about 30 minutes, when their roommate’s screams had stopped, they assumed the police had finally arrived.
When the two women went downstairs they saw that in fact the police never came, but the intruders were still there. As the Warren court graphically states in the opinion: “For the next fourteen hours the women were held captive, raped, robbed, beaten, forced to commit sexual acts upon each other, and made to submit to the sexual demands of their attackers.” The three women sued the District of Columbia for failing to protect them, but D.C.’s highest court exonerated the District and its police, saying that it is a “fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.” Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981).