Quote Originally Posted by Aaron1124
It's well noted and documented that the Supreme Court had made it very clear that the police do not have any obligation to respond to calls, nor do they have any obligation to protect the lives of others in their presence?
I dispute this blanket statement. Do you have any citations/references to back up your claim.
If I remember correctly those words were part of a majority opinion of SCOTUS over 30 years ago when a family sued the DC police for not responding in a timely manner when a woman was killed in her home AFTER calling the police. A good law search should find it. Oops, not SCOTUS. I seem to have mixed together more than one case.
I found this:
Just before dawn on March 16, 1975, two men broke down the back door of a three-story home in Washington, D.C., shared by three women and a child. On the second floor one woman was sexually attacked. Her housemates on the third floor heard her screams and called the police.
The women’s first call to D.C. police got assigned a low priority, so the responding officers arrived at the house, got no answer to their knocks on the door, did a quick check around, and left. When the women frantically called the police a second time, the dispatcher promised help would come—but no officers were even dispatched.
The attackers kidnapped, robbed, raped, and beat all three women over 14 hours. When these women later sued the city and its police for negligently failing to protect them or even to answer their second call, the court held that government had no duty to respond to their call or to protect them. Case dismissed.
No Cite, but it seems to be the federal district court of D.C. made this particular ruling.