Professional Duty Quotes



A police officer in Chicago had refused an assignment to guard an abortion clinic that had been threatened. He was offered a transfer to a district that had no abortion clinics, but refused to be transferred. He was fired then and the courts upheld the city’s right to fire him.


This statement demonstrates the transformation from the Communist era where the press was considered simply as another organ of the state. Before that, it was an instrument of the Czar. This is one of the world’s most firm statements of journalistic independence although recent Russian regimes have moved to limit journalistic independence.