Police Misconduct · Failure to Intervene & Render Aid

Failure to Intervene
& Render Aid

Two duties run alongside every use of force: the duty of an officer who sees excessive force to stop it, and the duty to render or summon aid once force has been used. Both are trained, both are written into policy, and both leave a record of whether they were honored.

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The Scope

What this covers.

Within this engagement

Duty to intervene in another officer's excessive force
Opportunity and ability to intervene, on the timeline
Duty to render or summon medical aid after force
Delay between force and aid, documented from the record
Failure to report force or misconduct up the chain
Supervisory response once force was known
Agency duty-to-intervene and aid policies, and the training behind them

How it is analyzed

Body-worn video timed against the radio and CAD record, use-of-force and supplemental reports, aid-request and medical-response timestamps, each officer's training file on intervention and aid duties, and the agency's own policies, to establish who saw what, who could have acted, and what the record shows they did.

Engagement terms and the published fee schedule: For Retaining Counsel →

From the Record

Related casework.

Jury verdict

Josiah Hunter v. City of Federal Way

U.S. District Court, W.D. Wash.

Trial testimony on excessive force; the jury agreed and awarded $640,000.

Case accounts as published by retaining counsel. No result is promised for any other matter.

Questions

Before the record is sent.

How is a duty-to-intervene opinion established?

On opportunity and ability. The video and radio timeline show what each officer could see, how long the force lasted, and where each officer was standing. Measured against the agency's policy and the training the officer actually received, the record shows whether intervention was possible and whether it occurred.

What does retention cost?

A non-refundable retainer of $8,000–$9,000 covering 29–33 hours of discovery review, report writing and conferences at $275 per hour. Most reports are completed within the retainer. The full published schedule is on the For Counsel page.

Retain

Send an intervention record.

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