Protection

 A teenage girl beaten in a Seattle bus tunnel as three security guards who were following company orders looked on said Friday that she sought help from the guards and police but was rebuffed.
It's been said over and over neither police nor security guards are required to protect any one individual and the vast majority of the time the police are no more than the recorders of fact that show up well after the damage has been done.
  Robb at Sharp as a Marble has another take- Sharp as a Marble - That excuse didn't fly with the Germans.
Also deserving of a H/T is David Codrea