Jeska Licke: I called and met with castle rock police nine times over a ten hour period. My cries for help fell on deaf ears. The police went to dinner, looked for a lost dog and had three officers tending to routine cassic sto. When jessica arrived at the police station, she was into an interrogation room. They wouldn't let her see her children. And once the shooting stop, the police approached simon's truck and opened the door. At that point they saw three dead little girls. Basically the understanding is that simon has killed them before arriving.
Since the massacre that took the lives of 19 schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas, people across the world began to ask versions of one question: why did police wait outside the door instead of protecting the kids?
It's not the first time this question has come up. Two years ago, as she watched police respond to the protests that followed the death of George Floyd, Producer B.A. Parker wondered: what are police for? With the help of our Producer Sarah Qari, she found that the United States’ Supreme Court had given this a most consequential and bewildering answer.
We decided to re-air this episode to shed light on how a case from 2005 upended our assumptions about the role police are meant to play in our lives.
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