Is a county immune from liability for its failure to deploy its available on-duty police officers to the scene of a riot?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Zelig v. County of Los Angeles, 119 Cal.Rptr.2d 709, 27 Cal.4th 1112, 45 P.3d 1171 (Cal. 2002):
More recently, a county was held to be immune from liability for its failure to deploy its numerous available on-duty police officers to provide protection to persons injured during a riot. (Gates v. Superior Court, supra, 32 Cal.App.4th 481, 38 Cal.Rptr.2d 489.) In that case, the defendants were senior supervisors in the Los
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