Banks v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that a law enforcement officer has a duty to prevent the commission of crime in his presence
• recognizing that a law enforcement officer has a duty to prevent the commission of crime in his presence
• recognizing that a law enforcement officer has a duty to prevent the commission of crime in his presence
• holding that since an officer is always obligated to attempt to prevent the commission of a crime in his presence, any action taken by him toward that end, even in his official off-duty hours, falls within the performance of his duties as a police officer
• holding that since an officer is always obligated to attempt to prevent the commission of a crime in his presence, any action taken by him toward that end, even in his official off-duty hours, falls within the performance of his duties as a police officer
• explaining that acts of a police officer taken to “prevent the commission of crime in his presence” are within the scope of their employment, even if the officer is off-duty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).