Governments and police (from all over the world) have repeatedly asserted that police owe no specific duty of protection to any individual.[1] What is truly remarkable is that so few people have realized this. Most governments assert that they only have a duty to provide security for themselves and/or 'society'; leaving aside the fact that collective rights have a horrific history, this is purely self-preserving.[2][3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_and_group_rights

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Soviet_Uni...