Washington, D.C. cops just as destructive as bushmilhousegang

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http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/07/dc-police-had-address-of-suspect.html


DC police had address of suspect before he slashed Brit's throat in Georgetown



Gee, what a surprise. So the guy who slashed the throat of a young Englishman in Georgetown last week, and then tried to rape his girlfriend, had actually committed a crime a few weeks before, the DC police had the guy's address, but did nothing about it. So the guy stayed at large and then murdered someone. I seriously hope his family sues the DC police for millions.
The Georgetown woman said she is a victim from one of the earlier cases: She was attacked about 2 a.m. June 11 near 27th and P streets NW by three men who put a gun in her face, grabbed her purse and demanded her cellphone. She was not injured.

About a week after she was robbed, the Georgetown woman said, she got a letter from her credit card company notifying her that her card was used to order an item being shipped to the 2700 block of Robinson Place SE.

The item was ordered from a company that sells male-enhancement products. The woman said she alerted the police, figuring the information would lead to the robbers.

Police responded by telling her they could not get an arrest warrant without first doing surveillance at the apartment building and then conducting a lineup to determine whether she could identify suspects. She said she was sure she could identify her attackers and was waiting for a call from the police.

Instead, she said, on July 9 she saw the faces of the men who robbed her flash across a television screen because they had been arrested in Senitt's slaying.

In addition to the address she provided, police also had surveillance video of the suspects from a camera at a gas station, where the suspects apparently used a credit card taken in another robbery, the Georgetown woman said.
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the police chief just got a 33% increase in his pension - a reward?

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1. the lawsuit

the lawsuit would never fly. there is ample case law on this

cops have NO duty to protect any individual citizen, absent a "special relationship". i won't go into the nuances of this, but the latter would encompass, for instance, somebody who had called 911 and requested police assistance and the police then abandoned a response

this is case law.

i'm not sayin' it's good or bad. but it IS the law. the police have no duty to any individual citizen to protect them nor do they have a duty merely because they have PC to arrest (assuming they did) to seek out the guy, go to his house and arrest him

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2. true...that's pretty well established

The police have a duty to enforce the law, not to protect anybody or anything.

This is still pretty ridiculous, though.