Do Police render first aid after they have shot someone?

“It is reasonable for people to assume that when it is safe for the officers to do so, that they would render first aid to somebody they've just shot,” said Jim Bueermann, a former police chief who is president of the Police Foundation, a research group that advises law enforcement agencies. read more

Assuming they've made sure the downed subject is the only threat (which they may have been but after someone is shot, it's possible that family members will become aggressors towards police even though the downed person was just trying to kill them), they may begin rendering aid but typically, officers are not extensively trained in treating gunshots. read more

“It is reasonable for people to assume that when it is safe for the officers to do so, that they would render first aid to somebody they’ve just shot,” said Jim Bueermann, a former police chief who is president of the Police Foundation, a research group that advises law enforcement agencies. read more

In New York, police officials began training all of their officers in advanced first aid earlier this year — prompted, at least in part, by the testimony of former NYPD officer Peter Liang, who told a jury that he did not provide medical aid to Akai Gurley, an unarmed black man he accidentally shot, because he did not know CPR, a claim department leaders have disputed. read more