New York Court of Appeals – a young woman who had repeatedly sought police protection against a rejected suitor after repeated threats was blinded by a thug hired by him.
Held: (Keating J dissenting) No action for negligence lay. Individuals, juries and courts are ill-equipped to judge ‘considered legislative-executive decision[s]’ as to how particular community resources should be or should have been allocated to protect individual members of the public.’ The provision of a government service to protect the public from external hazards and to control the activities of criminal wrongdoers was more appropriate for a considered legislative – executive decision, taking into account the limited resources of the community.
240 NE2d 860, 293 NYS2d 897, (1986) 22 NY2d 579
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Cited – Michael and Others v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police and Another SC 28-Jan-2015
The claimants asserted negligence in the defendant in failing to provide an adequate response to an emergency call, leading, they said to the death of their daughter at the hands of her violent partner. They claimed also under the 1998 Act. The . .
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Updated: 26 October 2021; Ref: scu.556807