The article about injured or sick people who are arrested by police ("Freddie Gray among many suspects who do not get medical care from Baltimore police," May 9), raises a question: Are cops supposed to be nannies and doctors too? Cops arrest criminals and deliver them to jail. There is where their responsibility ends because they have to get back to their duty station or beat.
Whether real, imagined or fake injuries and sickness, the intake officer at the jail is supposed to determine the medical needs of the arrestees and take appropriate action. The arrestees can be sent to the infirmary or to the hospital under guard for examination and/or treatment.
Cops are not doctors or nurses, they are cops. They have clear orders and providing medical care is not their responsibility. To suggest otherwise is to complicate matters. Let cops be cops.
A suspect's favorite ploy to avoid jail is to fake injuries or sickness. Sometimes the injuries are self-inflicted. Criminals will do anything to avoid jail. As a retired law enforcement officer, I know that is a fact.
Louis Ginesi Dominguez, Warrenton, Va.