Well the key factor in this principle is liability. 'Protect and Serve' is just market branding. It's already been legally established that US cops are not under obligation to protect anyone in the general populace (and the same principle probably applies everywhere across our neolib anarcho-tyranny). Since cops are the armed enforcers of the local economic zone managers, their main interest is simply avoiding liability, so our system can happily say that cops have no responsibility whatsoever for their countrymen or local citizenry, but they do assume heavy liability for any damage to the brown goods they are shipping.
If the cops are not under obligation to protect anyone in the general population, why is everyone in the general population under obligation to pay taxes for the cops' salaries?
Good question. The answer of the police/courts is probably that they protect the public at large by protecting the system of law, but that takes the form of mere apprehension of perps after the fact. They don't have to physically stick their neck out to protect anyone, see eg. Uvalde cops cleared of wrongdoing for standing by while an active shooter went around executing kids.
The legal system is happy with this because law and procedure have been decoupled from any moral framework, freeing up the cops to act as low liability armed guards for #currentthing.
According to the Supreme Court, because he is in police custody the cops have a greater obligation to protect the prisoner than any nearby citizenry.
Absolute nonsense.
We fucking kicked off this country for less shit than this.
Well the key factor in this principle is liability. 'Protect and Serve' is just market branding. It's already been legally established that US cops are not under obligation to protect anyone in the general populace (and the same principle probably applies everywhere across our neolib anarcho-tyranny). Since cops are the armed enforcers of the local economic zone managers, their main interest is simply avoiding liability, so our system can happily say that cops have no responsibility whatsoever for their countrymen or local citizenry, but they do assume heavy liability for any damage to the brown goods they are shipping.
If the cops are not under obligation to protect anyone in the general population, why is everyone in the general population under obligation to pay taxes for the cops' salaries?
Good question. The answer of the police/courts is probably that they protect the public at large by protecting the system of law, but that takes the form of mere apprehension of perps after the fact. They don't have to physically stick their neck out to protect anyone, see eg. Uvalde cops cleared of wrongdoing for standing by while an active shooter went around executing kids.
The legal system is happy with this because law and procedure have been decoupled from any moral framework, freeing up the cops to act as low liability armed guards for #currentthing.
Because they can oppress and you can't.