For the "Cop Hater" fan bois...
Educate yourselves!
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Why are citizens not granted the same luxury? It is a job, and it is a Choice to take that job. If the job were compulsory then extra benefits should be added. Too many people that serve are given benefit over the citizen, they tend to want to maintain that benefit and support new laws in the process. If you do not want to be a cop, then do not. It is time that the playing field was leveled.
Hell, most of it is code and statute enforcement anyway, which only plays into the control structure, deemed necessary for our safety while we are denied equal opportunity to keep ourselves safe...
Law enforcement officers ARE citizens.
“A policeman’s lot is not so unhappy that he must choose between being charged with dereliction of duty if he does not arrest when he has probable cause, and being mulcted in damages if he does,” ~ Chief Justice Earl Warren
The SCOTUS decision in Pierson vs. Ray DOES level the playing field.
Law enforcement's job has nothing to do with keeping you safe. It never did. Law enforcement's ONLY goal is to enforce the U.S. Constitution and all state and federal laws not inconsistent therewith. This is the oath that law enforcement officers take:
"I, [NAME], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and maintain the Constitution and laws of the United States, and the Constitution and laws of [State] not inconsistent therewith, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of my office as a law enforcement officer of the [Name of Department] so help me God."
It is through the enforcement of the laws legislated by society as a whole that an area of peace and safety is developed and maintained in which you, the citizen, can live your life in a relative measure of security while maintaining the autonomy you desire.
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The police have no general duty to protect. Warren v. District of Columbia (444 A.2d. 1, D.C. Ct. of Ap. 1981) is an oft-quoted District of Columbia Court of Appeals (equivalent to a state supreme court) case that held police do not have a duty to provide police services to individuals, even if a dispatcher promises help to be on the way, except when police develop a special duty to particular individuals. Because the police have no general duty to protect individuals, judicial remedies are not available for their failure to protect. In other words, if someone is injured because they expected but did not receive police protection, they cannot recover damages by suing (except in very special cases). Despite a long history of such failed attempts, however, many, people persist in believing the police are obligated to protect them, attempt to recover when no protection was forthcoming, and are emotionally demoralized when the recovery fails. Legal annals abound with such cases.
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Doesn't matter if we like it. When we break the law there are consequences, when they break the law....
NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!
What is treason, exactly?
"Knowingly" is going to be a very important word.
"...or should have known" is an even more important phrase.
"willfully" is also another important word in legislation, laws and charging language.
That is just more of the law makers trying to make fun things happen.
Language is a real bitch sometimes because it can be used to enlighten or confuse. How would you define should have known? If in a car, should have known to stop but was distracted by a phone holds weight. Operating dangerously, of course.
This is why we need to get back to a Republic and stop making so many Laws for the people. Chicago, murder happens apparently, guns are illegal apparently, citizen can't own a gun to protect themselves from a criminal and must call police that have no responsibility over that persons life what so ever and wait. I do not advocate for everyone shooting everyone, but if everyone had a gun people would be less likely to attack? At the very least those attacked would have a chance to defend themselves while waiting on the people that have no responsibility over them. Murder and attempted murder are a crime, but in many cases the police are forbidden to do anything until a crime has been committed, so how do you really do anything?
These people (police) are in a shitty spot to say the least and I feel for them, really I do. But I cannot support people that allow this to continue. This isn't anti cop, again, just what they are made to do.