Rumor #1

Who was it who warned years ago that LEMART Training would open up the Police Department to all sorts of liability, not to mention obligations (real or imagined) to treat persons injured? Was it something "insignificant" along with hundreds of their readers? 

• Just found out this little nugget for all the hard working and caring P.O.’S that transported victims to the hospital in that chaos Wed. My neighbor is a paralegal for a Law Firm that is already drafting up Law Suits against CPD for not waiting for CFD and BLAMING CPD for deaths and injuries…disgusting!

We'll confess, we don't really believe this one. The lawyers would have to prove transporting someone resulted in further injury, along with negligence and intent. We're told the ones who died weren't the ones transported, mostly because of the nature of the wounds (massive trauma).

The City and Department could solve the entire issue by using the LEMART training for what it was originally instituted for - saving an injured Officer's life.

Or by stopping training for chest seals, tourniquets, quick-clot and bandages and leave everything to the paramedics....who are understaffed, overworked and wasted on tummy-aches in certain neighborhoods.