Nobody Is Coming To Save & Protect You – Police Motto Misleading

By Anthony Veltri
July 31, 2013
NewsWithViews.com

How the police motto “to protect and serve” has mislead a generation.

In 1963, the police motto “to protect and serve” was officially adopted by the Los AngelesPolice Department. The motto has since been adopted by many departments across the nation. While many officers align with this motto as the aim and purpose of their profession, the fact is that this motto has contributed to a substantial gap between what the public perceives as the responsibility of public safety personnel and what an officer has a legal duty to protect. In fact, what many citizens believe to be a police, fire and rescue personnel’s duty to “protect and serve” them is actually in direct conflict with the “public duty doctrine” which states: “absent a special relationship between the governmental entity and the injured individual, the governmental entity will not be liable for injury to an individual… the governmental entity owes a duty to the public in general.”

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