Nearly two-thirds of gunshot victims in Philadelphia are brought to trauma centers by police, according to a 2021 study.

When five police officers were shot in Houston in January 2019 while serving a drug-related arrest warrant, all of them were transported to the hospital after emergency medical services arrived. Two went by air and three by ground ambulance.

About seven months later, a gunman in Philadelphia shot six police officers during another drug warrant execution. Videos show police putting the wounded officers into their vehicles to take them to the hospital themselves, without waiting for EMS.

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