Police Have No Duty To Secure The Life Of Americans From Threat Of Physical Harm

By Roger Katz

Opinion

New York – -(AmmoLand.com)- Two decades-old court cases, one from New York and the other from California, lay bare the sad truth: Police have no duty to secure the life of Americans from the threat of physical harm even upon notice of imminent harm.

• In the New York case, the police responded to the imminent threat posed to a young woman but did so too late.
• In the California case, the police did not respond to the call for immediate protection at all; blatantly shrugging it off.

Consider, first, the facts of the 1968 case, as laid out in detail by the dissenting judge, in Riss vs. New York:

“Linda Riss, an attractive young woman, was for more than six months terrorized by a rejected suitor well known to the courts of this State, one Burton Pugach. This miscreant, masquerading as a respectable attorney, repeatedly threatened to have Linda killed or maimed if she did not yield to him: ‘If I can’t have you, no one else will have you, and when I get through with you, no one else will want you’. In fear for her life, …Read the Rest

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