Not NYPD, but if my backup and I walk into a scene where one person is standing there holding a weapon and there's a body on the floor, we're both going to be 100% focused on that person until they're controlled. Well, call it 95%, because we're also calling it in and staying aware enough to be sure there's not a second suspect coming up behind us, but the victim(s) will to have to wait until we get the suspect disarmed and in custody. That's if the suspect's lucky, because like the other poster said above, walking in on what looks to be a murder in progress is going to have us very sensitive to anything even resembling a threatening movement.
Think the airplane safety briefing where they tell you to put your own oxygen mask on before helping others; we're not going to be much use to the victim if we get ourselves killed first. Besides, the paramedics are not going to come into the building until we can tell them it's secure.
As everybody else said, you do not do warning shots. Call for assistance (I don't know if NYPD still uses 10 codes, but it may be as simple as saying 10-13 and giving their location) and then use whatever level of force is appropriate to the situation. If they're firing their guns it should be because lethal force is necessary, no other reason. Again, I don't know any specific NYPD rules, but "subduing" a bunch of gang members who try to assault the police is going to require a report even if their guns never clear their holsters- there's the arrest report, the use of force documentation, the booking paperwork...
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Date: 2012-03-03 05:35 pm (UTC)Think the airplane safety briefing where they tell you to put your own oxygen mask on before helping others; we're not going to be much use to the victim if we get ourselves killed first. Besides, the paramedics are not going to come into the building until we can tell them it's secure.
As everybody else said, you do not do warning shots. Call for assistance (I don't know if NYPD still uses 10 codes, but it may be as simple as saying 10-13 and giving their location) and then use whatever level of force is appropriate to the situation. If they're firing their guns it should be because lethal force is necessary, no other reason. Again, I don't know any specific NYPD rules, but "subduing" a bunch of gang members who try to assault the police is going to require a report even if their guns never clear their holsters- there's the arrest report, the use of force documentation, the booking paperwork...