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Of course you can't shoot them since it would be immoral, so you dial 911 and let the cops do their job so you don't land in jail for turning a property crime into a murder or manslaughter.
The first thing you need to learn is that there is NO SUCH THING AS A NON-VIOLENT CRIMINAL!
Luke 12:39 KJV: "If the man of the house had known what hour the thief would come he would not have suffered him to enter." I don't think he would say pretty please. Like it or not we are on our own when it comes to protection. The biggest lie told is "Protect and Serve" because it is physically and logistically impossible. They can barely protect themselves. Cops are frequently shot with their own firearm.
Apparently many people are unaware that the courts have, many times, ruled that the police have no obligation to protect an individual.
The following are not merely anecdotes, but actual incidents that led to court rulings that support my assertion.
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Ruth Brunell called the police on 20 different occasions to plead for protection from her husband. He was arrested only one time. One evening, Mr. Brunell telephoned his wife and told her he was coming over to kill her. When she called the police, they refused her request that they come to protect her. They told her to call back when he got there. Mr. Brunell stabbed his wife to death before she could call the police to tell them that he was there. The court held that the San Jose police were not liable for ignoring Mrs. Brunell's pleas for help (Hartzler v. City of San Jose, 46 Cal. App. 3d 6 (1st Dist. 1975)). Those of you in the Silicon Valley, please note what city this happened in!
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Consider the case of Linda Riss, in which a young woman telephoned the police and begged for help because her ex-boyfriend had repeatedly threatened: "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." The day after she had pleaded for police protection, the ex-boyfriend threw lye in her face, blinding her in one eye, severely damaging the other, and permanently scarring her features. "What makes the City's position particularly difficult to understand," wrote a dissenting opinion in her tort suit against the City, "is that, in conformity to the dictates of the law, Linda did not carry any weapon for self-defense. Thus, by a rather bitter irony she was required to rely for protection on the City of New York which now denies all responsibility to her" (Riss v. New York, 240 N.E.2d 860 (N.Y.1968)). Note: Linda Riss obeyed the law, yet the law prevented her from arming herself in self defense.
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Warren v. District of Columbia is one of the leading cases of this type. Two women were upstairs in a townhouse when they heard their roommate, a third women, being attacked downstairs by intruders. They phoned the police several times and were assured that officers were on the way. After about 30minutes, when their roommate's screams had stopped, they assumed that the police had finally arrived. When the two women went downstairs, they saw that, in fact, the police never came, but the intruders were still there. As the Warren court graphically states in the opinion: "For the next fourteen hours the women were held captive, raped, robbed, beaten, forced to commit sexual acts upon each other, and made to submit to the sexual demands of their attackers." The three women sued the District of Columbia for failing to protect them, but D.C.'s highest court exonerated the District and its police, saying that it is a "fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen" (Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981).
This last one is particularly interesting. Not only did the police not show up, but the women were assured that the police were en route. Now that was apparently a lie meant to reassure the women. While probably comforting, believing the lies of the police prompted them to go downstairs where they ended up raped and beaten for 14 hours. Had the dispatcher told them something along the lines of, "We'll get someone out there as soon as a unit is available," or "We won't be able to show up for at least 14 hours," then these women would've been spared the horror they experienced. Not only did the police not show up, these women were lied to about the police showing up. Hardly surprising but certainly disappointing.
Strangely enough the United States Supreme Court has also upheld rulings that cops are under no obligation to protect the individual.
As stated by the old timers from long ago: The Lord helps them who help themselves.
This is about it being a robbery, not about how easily I can re-earn what was taken from me!!!!!
