"Duty to Protect" Bill

Aaron Toman will introduce a "Duty to Protect" Bill which will require that if an individual is employed in Federal Law Enforcement within the United States' Jurisdiction, that the individual has a legally required responsibility to protect the citizens within their specific jurisdiction. Most people assume that Law Enforcement already has a "Duty to Protect", why else would we be willing for our tax dollars to pay their salaries? The sad truth is that there is no requirement for Law Enforcement to protect the public and this has been verified time after time by the SCOTUS. If the public is forced to pay their salaries, then the public should receive protection in return. This bill ends the loophole in this corrupt system of robbery. While this bill will only impact Federal Law Enforcement, it will set an example for individual states to copy and be applied to the state and county levels of Law Enforcement within that state. 

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This Bill is not anti-Law Enforcement, it is Pro-Citizen. We've all heard it before, "there's just a few rotten apples" and Aaron believes this mostly holds true. The vast majority of Law Enforcement already believes that they have a "Duty to Protect" and act accordingly. We hear of the heroism by individual officers throughout the years and this bill will have no effect on the majority of Law Enforcement. This bill will specifically target those "rotten apples" who see a career in Law Enforcement as a means to benefit themselves and not as an honorable career to be at the service of others. This "Duty to Protect" Bill will keep the "rotten apples" away from applying for the job in the first place and will punish those "rotten apples" who use the position to benefit themselves without care for the citizens they have promised to protect. 

"Good Apples" joined Law Enforcement to protect others and to uphold the law. If you are a Law Enforcement Officer and you see no need to have a "Duty to Protect" required by law, it's time to reconsider your career as you clearly choose this one for a different reason than the vast majority of your fellow officers.