Unfortunately, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the District Attorney somehow managed to disregard those California laws in the case of a friend who was defending his mother and himself against some home invaders.
Previously, his mother, who suffered from age related dementia, was threatened with repeated home invasions and burglaries on occasions when he was absent at work. when reported, the LAPD refused to take any actions. Finally, there came a day when his automobile was in the repair shop for maintenance and he was at home asleep in the daytime when the home invaders struck again. Unlike the previous robberies, the door had been heavily reinforced with stronger deadbolt locks and chains. It took the home invaders a considerably greater effort for them to kick and batter the locked front door open, succeeding only by shattering the wooden door frame into great shards and splinters of wood.
The tremendous noise of the front door being splintered and wrecked awoke my friend. He picked up his large caliber pistol and dashed out of his bedroom and into the front room, where he found his elderly mother frozen and shivering in fright and the robbers dropping the loot and dashing out the wrecked front door. The friend pursued the robbers outdoors with his pistol in hand. The robbers retreated into the front yards of the neighboring houses, where they were staying or living. The robbers stopped there as if they were children playing tag and their front yards were supposed to somehow represent a home base where they were safe from being tagged by IT. There they stood and taunted my friend. My friend stopped in his front yard at the property line and responded to the taunts of the robbers by simply holding his pistol up to where it could be seen and the robbers could understand how close they came to being shot.
To add insult to injury, the robbers called the LAPD to report a man with a gun. The LAPD arrived, arrested my friend, refused to arrest the robbers, and left his elderly mother sitting in the home with a wide open front door with no way of closing or locking the door alone with the robbery suspects unmolested. While my friend was under arrest in police custody at a police station only a half block away in Hollywood, the robbery suspects went back into his home and robbed some more of their property as his elderly mother sat there frightened to death.
She telephoned me and asked for my help to come and help her to bail her son out of jail. He eventually found it necessary to accept the prosecutor’s plea deal to a lesser charge to avoid a felony firearms conviction, which then left him with an arrest record and a criminal record. So much for the reliability of California law and the California justice system.
Any ideas as to why the LAPD refused to use common sense?