Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: 911 tells young mother, "do what you have to do to protect your baby" [View all]iverglas
(38,549 posts)... the people of the US had the right to vote for governments that did not allow public bodies like the police to treat the public with that kind of disregard ...
Of course, it would help if the people of the US stopped worshipping the tax cutting charlatans who deny those public bodies the funds they need to provide public services effectively ... and figured out some way of holding those public bodies to account when they fail to perform their duties ...
If a police service in Canada received a report of something stating he was "coming to kill" a member of the public and told her to call back if he showed up, and the result was as you describe, there would be lawsuits and public investigations and hell to pay. (In other words, there are such disincentives to a police service behaving that way that I'm quite confident it would not dare.)
What a shame you in the US don't have rights like we do.
http://www.sgmlaw.com/en/about/JaneDoev.MetropolitanTorontoMunicipalityCommissionersofPolice.cfm
("the police had violated Jane Doe's equality rights, as well as her constitutional right to security of the person"
http://www.benmor.com/court_proc.php
("Can you sue the police for failing to investigate a complaint of domestic violence?"
Only in Canada, you say? Pity.
As a famous Kennedy or two of yours once said,
Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say 'why not?'