So now the cops aren't allowed to save you??????

[JC5123]

This is absolute crap!!!!!

A Connecticut police officer who tried in vain to save the life of a dying 10-year-old boy -- only to be notified by city officials that his heroic effort was not part of his job -- met Friday with city officials who promised to clarify the notice, FoxNews.com has learned.

New Britain Police Officer Frank Barbagiovanni met with Mayor Tim O'Brien after local media reported on the notice the officer received from city attorneys in connection to a Nov. 11 incident in Barbagiovanni tried to revive the boy, who later died at an area hospital.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/20/connecticut-officer-who-tried-to-save-dying-boy-to-receive-clarification-after/#ixzz1k2CRdW8X

It sounds like the city is doing right now, but their initial reaction is total BS. 

[tombogan03884]

This is absolute crap!!!!!

A Connecticut police officer who tried in vain to save the life of a dying 10-year-old boy -- only to be notified by city officials that his heroic effort was not part of his job -- met Friday with city officials who promised to clarify the notice, FoxNews.com has learned.

New Britain Police Officer Frank Barbagiovanni met with Mayor Tim O'Brien after local media reported on the notice the officer received from city attorneys in connection to a Nov. 11 incident in Barbagiovanni tried to revive the boy, who later died at an area hospital.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/20/connecticut-officer-who-tried-to-save-dying-boy-to-receive-clarification-after/#ixzz1k2CRdW8X

It sounds like the city is doing right now, but their initial reaction is total BS.

What do you expect from lawyers ?
Why do you think the Congress and CIA have been so screwed up ?
They are full of ambulance chasing assholes lawyers

[Solus]

Well, lawyers do make better lab animals than rats because:

There are so many of them.

The Lab Assistants don't become attached to them.

There are some things a rat won't do.

[Pathfinder]

So? Why outraged over this? The SCOTUS as well as numerous other courts have long ruled that the local po-pos are not required under any circumstances to enforce any law or protect any person. It is established case law.

Now do you begin to understand how deep the sh!t is in which we live?

[Roscoe.357]

It's ridiculous when the men and women who are sworn to "protect" and "serve" have to worry about stupid sh*t like this. Now, this cop and others will be second-guessing every move they make. Instead of acting on their instincts, they'll be weighing the pros and cons that each action, no matter how heroic and justified, could possibly bring from the city attorney's office. Bureaucrats make me ill.

[Sponsor]

[Solus]

The legal reasoning is that since the courts have ruled that protecting citizens is not an obligation of the police, any officer doing so is doing it voluntarily...and thus making the dept. liable for any damages done since it is not in the line of duty.

And the reason that is a problem is because the people have become so used to suing for anything and that is because ambulance chasing lawyers now advertise on mass media to drum up business....they even advertise the clients will not be charged unless there is a settlement....so the clients have noting to lose by filing and the lawyers have nothing better to do except drum up business...

So, we have lawyers who get paid by leading folks in to sue police and other lawyers who get paid to protect the police from getting sued.

Everybody wins except the citizens and the police.

[tombogan03884]

Has any one else here read Stephen Hunter's newest, "Soft Target" ?
If you haven't you're wondering WTH does that have to do with this thread.
If you have you know exactly what I'm referring to.