It’s not that they have no duty, they have no legal duty to enforce laws. Same as most other people when it comes to enforcing laws. Their duty is imposed by their department and the cities that employ them.
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That sounds like basically no duties to me. Well, except for stuff like doughnut runs.
I never noticed that the guy in the background does a double jagsfan move.
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I suppose your job duties are also mostly doughnut runs
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Nah, I’m not a cop.
Police forces in the UK and across Europe are suffering from a growing “culture of extremism”, according to a report that warns of an increase in officers sharing racist and far-right content online. The report, by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), says UK policing has a growing extremist problem, and highlights issues across Europe. In France, 81% of gendarmes declared they would vote for far-right politician Marine Le Pen.
In France, Belgium, Germany and Hungary former high-ranking police officers have become extreme-right mayoral and parliamentary candidates.
Liz Fekete, director of IRR, said: “Our conclusion that the dehumanising mindset and overall sense of impunity and entitlement displayed in police WhatsApp groups is a symptom, not a cause, of authoritarian trends in policing, will no doubt make for uncomfortable reading.”
Fekete added: “Racism has become entrenched in policing as the rank and file are resituating themselves as society’s victims and organising on an ever more extremist agenda.”
https://twitter.com/eji_org/status/1547590664078077952?s=20&t=KSdu7CSzC0UoyFgH0BfqBw
The entire criminal justice system is broken beyond repair in the US
I don’t think police should have a legal obligation to enforce laws any more than anyone else has a legal obligation to do their job. But, all the police should be fired anyway.
Lots of people have a legal obligation to do their jobs. Cops is one of the few I can think that don’t except for minimum wage service type jobs.
What do you mean by “legal obligation”? The most anyone can ever get, in most cases, for not doing their job is fired. There may be some differences between contract employees and regular employees.
Contract employees could possibly be required to return pay in a civil suit. But that’s not going to depend on wage level.
What happens if a surgeon up and quits iin the middle of an operation? I’d like the think there are legal consequences to that.
Engineer tho
My understanding is all medical professionals, lawyers, engineers, civil service, airline mechanics ect all have a legal obligation to do their jobs to a standard that public health and safety are protected.
They can all face consequences above being fired for not doing so.
Licensing is a separate issue. Negligence is a separate issue. An airline mechanic or civil servant is not going to get more than fired for just not doing their job. If an airline mechanic does something obviously negligent, that’s different. If they sit around playing on their phone, they just get fired at the worst. A lawyer or a doctor is likely to get sued if they quit in the middle of something. A civil suit.
But, what are you talking about? You think the cops who did nothing should go to jail? (The cops who stopped parents from going in were actively doing something terrible, so maybe them.)
Cops, and the right generally, want this (Uvalde) to be about how a few cops did something unusual. They were just being standard cops. The cops took longer to do anything about the Pulse Nightclub shooting. (the cops were sued and the case was dismissed and the dismissal was upheld). Bob Dylan understood the problem a long time ago, the cops don’t need you and man they expect the same.
And I get how theoretically holding a few cops responsible could affect cops generally, but that’s very theoretical and it’s a losing battle and not close. The justice system isn’t going to protect people from cops generally. It will protect cops from the people. The best we can hope for is to cut their budgets.
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I wasn’t taking about the shooting. I was posting in the context of the odd US situation where cops everywhere have no legal obligation to do anything. They can openly ignore any court order of protection, any law being broken. Anything.
What do you want to happen to them for doing nothing? Fired? Fined? Sued? Jailed?
(Keep in mind they ignore laws being broken all the time. What happens when they don’t arrest a shoplifter? Or don’t arrest someone for sleeping in public where it’s illegal?)
All the above or frankly if cops don’t have an obligation to be cops why have cops. 
Everything up to jailed seems reasonable (and jailed if it’s egregious). It makes zero sense that cops are held to a different standard than most other professions.
As an example - a 911 operator was just charged for manslaughter for ignoring a request for an ambulance. If that was a cop, they would have zero responsibility or liability for the exact same negligence.
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In my neighborhood it’s to chase out homeless people and keep an eye on Black people…and those activities are very popular with the residents.
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