17-year-old shot and killed by officer conducting welfare check

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17-year-old shot and killed by officer conducting welfare check
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Don't they have laws to protect the population from free walking murder suspects?

Sorry for who has to live there.

laws don't protect people.

of course not, thats true.

but i think laws should have some "binding" effect on how police acts on suspects of murder like separating the suspects from their comrades to disenabling them from making up cover stories until beeing presented to a court or such? also disenabling them from:

  • walking free and killing a next victim (maybe accidental witnesses they want to get rid of for undenyable cover stories)
  • destroying evidences as they seem fit
  • vanishing forever as they like
  • creating false evidences

All this is not regulated to at least some degree in laws to be followed strictly by police officers? i am not talking about laws preventing actions of one person or two, but laws binding police in general on how to handle these suspects depending on the crime suspected and that there seems to be no doubt who was on-scene when that happened.