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• Officials: LA deputy shot in face saved partner while she called for help

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  Despite her own wounds, the deputy applied a tourniquet to her partner and radioed for help after they were shot in an ambush

• Street medics must comply with lawful police orders to disperse during protests, judge rules

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  An attorney for the protest medics argued that rendering medical aid was a form of protected free speech

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  How to train to safely de-escalate someone in crisis

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  A new program from VirTra teaches officers how to recognize mental health challenges and how to respond appropriately

• NJ Assembly passes bill allowing police to transport gunshot victims

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  The bill is based on a practice in Philadelphia known as "scoop and run"

• Rendering aid after use of deadly force

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  Considerations following an officer-involved shooting

• Mass. LEOs save boy's life after he was impaled by spikes on fence

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  The boy was pale and lethargic after losing a significant amount of blood, police said

• Photo of the Week: SWAT training

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  Det. Sgt. Marion Cain of the Edmond Police Department captured this photo of SWAT members conducting emergency medical training under live fire conditions in Edmond, Oklahoma. Calling all police ph...

• Lessons from the Norway terror attack

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  It was estimated that 1 in 4 Norwegians knew someone who had been directly affected by the deadliest attack in Norway since World War II

• House passes bill to ensure COVID-19 death, disability benefits for first responders

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  The bill, which creates a presumption that COVID-19 was contracted in the line of duty, is headed to the president's desk

• I can’t breathe: What it means for law enforcement

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  When a subject tells you they can’t breathe, it should be understood as a nontrivial indication that something might be seriously wrong.

• Why all cops need to know how to 'stop the bleed'

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  Life-threatening hemorrhages are a huge threat to officers who have been injured in the line of duty

• New TCCC guidelines provide officers more tourniquet choices

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  The Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care had previously only recommended three tourniquets in its guidelines

• Opinion: Increase cardiac arrest outcomes by updating police dispatch protocols

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  We lose 1,000 Americans a day to sudden cardiac arrest – here’s how cops could help

• What you don’t know about being injured could leave you homeless

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  How one organization is helping cops with an often occurring – but seldom discussed – legal and financial nightmare

• Death investigations upended by a rush to harvest body parts

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  In dozens of cases nationwide, organs and other body parts have been harvested before coroners can complete autopsies

• Mass. officer helps couple deliver baby at home

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  "Normally the EMTs or Fire Department would handle a situation like this, but I just happened to be there first," the LEO said

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