Does a complainant have an obligation to report a theft to the police, not the police?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Gini v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Dept., 40 F.3d 1041 (9th Cir. 1994):
Count three alleges that the police hindered the investigation of her theft complaint, not her reporting of the theft. The police have no affirmative obligation to investigate a crime in a particular way or to protect one citizen from another even when one citizen deprives the other of liberty of property. DeShaney v. Winnebago County, 489 U.S. 189, 195-96, 109 S.Ct. 998, 1002-03, 103 L.Ed.2d 249 (1989).
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