In Castle Rock v. Gonzales, police didn't enforce a restraining order against an ex-husband who kidnapped and murdered 3 kids. The Supreme Court ruled police had no obligation to enforce the order.
On the ninth episode of 5-4, Peter (@The_Law_Boy), Rhiannon (@AywaRhiannon), and Michael (@_FleerUltra) talk about a domestic violence case in Colorado that led to the death of three children and a Supreme Court ruling that affirmed a broad vision of police discretion.
"This is a gruesome case, brought in 2005 by a Colorado woman named Jessica Gonzales. Gonzales had a restraining order against her ex-husband. But when he kidnapped her three children, the police ignored her requests for help. All three children were murdered. The Supreme Court ruled that the police had no obligation to enforce the restraining order."
In the words of the pod, the majority opinion is that "the long tradition of police doing whatever the fuck they want is so important that it outweighs the clear language and intent of a law" that was written to protect women and children from domestic abusers.
There's genuinely no problems in the world we wouldn't have the knowledge, resources and time to fix, if we didn't have to deal with these assholes protecting the corrupt rich.
I'm just defeated and depressed that I've stopped fighting the windmills. Can hardly get up. Everywhere you look some reminded of some leadership of a nation or an institution or another is doing something clearly and utterly corrupt that is putting the actual existence of humanity at risk in the long term and definitely risking fascism in the short term.
I'm just so fucking annoyed I don't know what to do
Castle Rock is located in a very wealthy, very white county in Colorado. It's full of "I got mine, fuck you" right wing assholes. Lots of MAGA hats, very few masks, that kinda crowd. They absolutely did not want their police force to divert any energy away from protecting their McMansions by having to protect someone with the last name "Gonzales".