They don&#x27;t really have a choice. When a state trooper so much as gave a speeding ticket to city police officer in Florida, it caused a state wide unofficial standoff.<p>In the aftermath, some idiot police officer pulled over a state trooper for no reason and it turned out the trooper was related to the sheriff and got the idiot suspended.<p>Then in New York, some police officers allegedly threatened emergency workers to watch their backs themselves after this incident <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.nydailynews.com&#x2F;new-york&#x2F;exclusive-emts-turn-officers-beat-handcuffed-patient-article-1.1891706" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.nydailynews.com&#x2F;new-york&#x2F;exclusive-emts-turn-office...</a><p>It isn&#x27;t just isolated incidents of power trips in individuals. It is a culture that sustains itself. Maybe it is just human nature. Apparently, it is completely legal for on duty police officers to not help people in distress from let&#x27;s say a lunatic trying to stab them. What is to say an officer assigned to protect a judge will not stand back and watch the judge die if the judge had a reputation of being tough on cops?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;27&#x2F;city-says-cops-had-no-duty-to-protect-subway-hero-who-subdued-killer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;27&#x2F;city-says-cops-had-no-duty-to-p...</a><p>I shouldn&#x27;t be partisan in this case that affects all of us across party lines but doggamn Justice Scalia! <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;06&#x2F;28&#x2F;politics&#x2F;justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect-someone.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;06&#x2F;28&#x2F;politics&#x2F;justices-rule-pol...</a>