Reply #7: not really

[paulsby]

the case law says they have no legal duty to protect any specific individual

it does not therefore follow that they CANNOT PROTECT YOU.

it merely means they (as you state in your second sentence) they have NO duty not to protect individuals (not in custody AND that they have not established certain relationsip with (such as dispatcher telling person something specific as to response etc. etc)

police can and do frequently protect people.

i have taken kicks to the head protecting people and suffered smoke inhalation pulling people from a building so don't tell me we CANNOT protect you.

cops can and do. routinely

as for THIS case, that wasn't a cop. that was a COP-O-CRAT

:)