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Life Saving Incident

August 21, 2010
Idaho
Ada County
Boise

On August 21, 2010, Boise Police Officers Casey Hancuff, Jason Rose, and Adam Crist responded to an active shooter call. A frantic woman told Dispatch that someone was shooting at her door. The shooter then entered her home and desperate screams were heard. Officers Crist, Hancuff, and Rose made entry into the home where they encountered two people with gunshot wounds. The male suspect was down with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The victim was down with gunshot wounds to both legs. The femoral artery in her left leg had been splayed open by a bullet and she had sustained massive bleeding. Unable to find a pulse on the unresponsive woman, the three officers refused to give up on her. Officer Crist recognized the need for a tourniquet so he, Officer Hancuff, and Officer Rose fashioned two sets of hobbles into tourniquets and applied them while elevating the woman's legs. Officer Crist held the victim's hands and encouraged her. Miraculously, the victim responded to their life-saving efforts by regaining consciousness, motioning with her hands, and eventually talking. Officer Crist was able to gain valuable intelligence on the suspect while Officers Hancuff and Rose maintained the vital pressure on the tourniquets. Several times they fought for the woman as they watched the life flow out of her. With total commitment, Officers Rose and Hancuff held the tourniquets tight as they sped toward the hospital in the ambulance. Both paramedics and hospital staff stated that without the dedicated actions and quick thinking of Officers Crist, Hancuff and Rose, the victim would have died at the scene from massive blood loss.

The history of law enforcement in the United States is a long and wonderful history of bravery. This website is dedicated to documenting the heroic deeds of law enforcement officers throughout the United States who have either given or risked their lives to save others. There are many stories of bravery and heroism for many who are considered first responders. However, it is those in law enforcement who are most likely to be the first to arrive upon a location requiring life saving acts engaging dangerous hostage takers, running into burning buildings/vehicles, providing first aid to seriously injured victims, saving near drowning victims and much more are what the women and men of law enforcement do routinely and at many times, great peril to their own safety.
It is our mission to document the history of lives saved by those dedicated women and men in law enforcement. To share with others the dramatic deeds of those individuals who are the first, first responders. It is so important for our citizens to understand that law "enforcement" is not always about enforcing the law but rather being there when our citizens need us.
It is to this end we are dedicated to promoting documentation regarding the history of law enforcement and the lives they have saved.