Outrage: Cops Stand Impotent As Family Gets Murdered

27 Jul, 2010 by Melissa Clouthier

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This reminds me of Columbine and Virginia Tech and pisses me off just as badly. From the Washington Examiner:

The District police department policy on forcible entry caused a “deadly delay” as officers waited for a supervisor outside an apartment while a mother and her two young sons were being stabbed to death inside, according to a lawsuit filed by the woman’s family.

The policy that led to police taking nearly an hour to finally bust down the door and find the murdered family is at the center of a $60 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city and the officers involved.

An hour? What good are police? Really? Besides writing tickets and generally harassing people, if they cannot SERVE AND PROTECT what good are they?