The woman reported her children kidnapped and showed the order to the police and they refused to do anything and said she should just wait and he would probably come back.
The man showed up at the police station a day later with her 3 children, dead.
So now we have the precedent that even in the most extreme and obvious cases, police have absolutely no duty to uphold their oath.
Thanks Scalia.
In general, it's worth keeping in mind that the point of courts is not to decide whether the outcome of the case is ethically or socially desirable. They're there to look at the laws and precedent and figure out how it applies to a given case. If the result is undesirable, it's something for the legislature to fix.
Ah, the old "we're here to talk about laws, not justice" argument.
“We came within one vote of declaring the VCR contraband 30 years ago in Sony [v. Universal]. The dissent in that case was driven in part by the plaintiffs’ prediction that VCR technology would wreak all manner of havoc in the television and movie industries. The Networks make similarly dire predictions about Aereo. We are told that nothing less than ‘the very existence of broadcast television as we know it’ is at stake. Aereo and its amici dispute those forecasts and make a few of their own.… We are in no position to judge the validity of those self-interested claims or to foresee the path of future technological development. Hence, the proper course is not to bend and twist the Act’s terms in an effort to produce a just outcome, but to apply the law as it stands…”