Police Suicide Rate

[waltky]

The stress of being a police officer takes it's toll...

Suicide Rate High Among Chicago Officers
February 1, 2017 - The rate of suicide among officers with the Chicago Police Department is 60 percent higher than other departments across the U.S., a recently released Justice Department report found.

Life insurance claims information from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 estimates that among the departments nearly 10,000 patrol officers, an average of three officers will take their own lives each year, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.

Over the past decade, 13 Chicago police officers have been killed in the line of duty, but nearly twice as many officers committed suicide in the same time period. "There is a problem, and nobody’s doing anything about it," Ron Rufo, who was a peer support counselor for most his 21 years as an officer in the 9th District Rufo. "Supervisors don't talk about it. The rank-and-file don’t talk about it. And it’s like the administration does not want to admit it's a problem."

Chicago Police guard the scene of a shooting involving multiple victims, including an off-duty police officer, inside a parking garage on the 1200 Block of North State Parkway​

The Chicago Police Department's Employee Assistance Program -- which provides mental health services officers and staff -- currently only has three full-time counselors. The LAPD, which boasts a smaller number of employees, has a staff of 11 counselors.

Chicago FOP President Dean Angelo said that union leaders have urged department brass to create a program allowing officers to take time off or an administrative assignment when they were under stress or following a traumatic event. That suggestion was turned into the department's new policy of putting officers on desk duty for a mandatory 30 days following an on-duty shooting. Angelo said the move seems punitive to patrol officers. "We wanted an 'administrative timeout,' where you could go to your supervisor and say, 'Hey, I need some time,' and there would be a guarantee you could stay in your assignment and wouldn't be ostracized," he said. "Guys need that guarantee, or they're not going to talk."

Report: Suicide Rate High Among Chicago Police Officers | Officer.com

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Texas Deputy Kills Son, Self in Murder-Suicide
February 1, 2017 - Preliminary rulings from the Tarrant County medical examiner's office show that Young County Deputy Joseph Parker shot his 27-year-old son Kensy, then himself.

A North Texas deputy sheriff and his son died in a murder-suicide, officials said. Officers were called about 10:40 a.m. Thursday to the home of Joseph Parker in the 1300 block of Cherry Street after a family friend discovered two bodies in a bedroom, Graham police said.

Preliminary rulings from the Tarrant County medical examiner's office show that Parker shot his 27-year-old son Kensy, then himself, police said. Parker, 61, was last seen Jan. 24 when he left work early at about 4:30 p.m. The last time he had contact with anyone outside the home was through text message at about 9 p.m., police said. Graham police said in a prepared statement that the investigation has been difficult "for all the departments in our area."

Deputy Joseph Parker, left, and his son Kensy​

Parker and his son each had a single gunshot wound, and there was no sign of a forced entry or struggle. No note was found. "We will probably never know the reasoning as to why this happened, and while we do not condone his actions, we remember his service to the community and our hearts go out to the family," police said.

Parker, who retired after 20 years as a Graham police officer, was the Deputy Sheriff of Young County. He also served as a firefighter and arson investigator with the Graham Fire Department. Graham is located about 120 miles northwest of Dallas.

Texas Deputy Kills Son, Himself in Murder-Suicide | Officer.com

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NYPD Detective's Death Classified a Homicide
February 1, 2017 - The NYPD’s classification of Detective Steven McDonald’s death as a homicide decades after he was injured is often done in cases where crime victims die as a result of assaults and shootings that take a toll later in life.

NYPD Det. Steven McDonald’s death last month from an apparent heart attack has been classified as a 2017 homicide, even though he survived being shot by a teenager in Central Park in July 1986, officials said Tuesday. The NYPD’s classification of McDonald’s death as a homicide decades after he was injured is often done in cases where crime victims die as a result of assaults and shootings that take a toll later in life, a police spokesman said.

Detective Steven McDonald​

McDonald, of Malverne, was shot by Shavod Jones and left a quadriplegic, though a wheelchair gave him mobility and a respirator he used to breathe allowed him to talk. He was an active member of the NYPD until he died at age 59. McDonald, who was stricken Jan. 6, was taken off life support Jan. 10. His funeral Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan on Jan. 13 drew thousands of mourners.

Jones, who was sent to prison for attempted murder and was released in 1995, died in a motorcycle accident a few days after being freed. McDonald’s death has been factored into 2017 NYPD crime data. Through Sunday, there have been 17 killings for the year, compared with 22 in the same period in 2016.

NYPD Detective's Death Classified a Homicide | Officer.com

 

[yiostheoy]

This issue is similar in the military and stems from the training for conflict resolution with a gun.

Guns are for self defense and national defense.

Not for solving personal problems.

This is not sufficiently taught and programmed into soldiers and cops unfortunately.

 

[PurpleOwl]

Must be all that guilt from murdering unarmed black children?

 

[yiostheoy]

Must be all that guilt from murdering unarmed black children?

Actually that would make my day. Especially the really big goons like Michael Brown.

But I would not need a dozen shots to do it with. One or two alone would do.

 

[PurpleOwl]

Must be all that guilt from murdering unarmed black children?

Actually that would make my day. Especially the really big goons like Michael Brown.

But I would not need a dozen shots to do it with. One or two alone would do.

Why are cops so racist? Is it part of your training?

 

[yiostheoy]

Negro bucks like Michael Brown are like wild rock apes.

They bring violent justice upon themselves by their own jungle actions.

 

[PurpleOwl]

Negro bucks like Michael Brown are like wild rock apes.

They bring violent justice upon themselves by their own jungle actions.

How many innocent black kids have you murdered?

 

[yiostheoy]

Negro bucks like Michael Brown are like wild rock apes.

They bring violent justice upon themselves by their own jungle actions.

How many innocent black kids have you murdered?

None yet. Give it time however.

 

[yiostheoy]

Actually I am at a huge disadvantage for scoring kills on black kids.

Where I live in the Rockies there are very few Negroes.

They don't like the snow apparently. It gets way below freezing here.

God designed them for the jungles of Africa.

Stupid Dutch exported them into colonial America to work on tobacco and cotton farms.

Our local crime here is normally by Latinos stealing cars for the dope trade in and out of Mexico.

Dope out of Mexico.

Money and guns back into Mexico.

 

[Moonglow]

Actually I am at a huge disadvantage for scoring kills on black kids.

Where I live in the Rockies there are very few Negroes.

They don't like the snow apparently. It gets way below freezing here.

God designed them for the jungles of Africa.

Stupid Dutch exported them into colonial America to work on tobacco and cotton farms.

Our local crime here is normally by Latinos stealing cars for the dope trade in and out of Mexico.

Dope out of Mexico.

Money and guns back into Mexico.

You poor thing...maybe you could beat your meat a little harder when you fantasize about your thrill of the kill..

 

[PurpleOwl]

Actually I am at a huge disadvantage for scoring kills on black kids.

Where I live in the Rockies there are very few Negroes.

They don't like the snow apparently. It gets way below freezing here.

God designed them for the jungles of Africa.

Stupid Dutch exported them into colonial America to work on tobacco and cotton farms.

Our local crime here is normally by Latinos stealing cars for the dope trade in and out of Mexico.

Dope out of Mexico.

Money and guns back into Mexico.

so how many innocent Hispanic children have you murdered?

 

[Eloy]

Must be all that guilt from murdering unarmed black children?

Actually that would make my day. Especially the really big goons like Michael Brown.

But I would not need a dozen shots to do it with. One or two alone would do.

Why are cops so racist? Is it part of your training?

This is a good question. One has to ask what type of person is attracted to work in the police. Is there an element of being tough and bossy. Then there is an attraction of firearms.

Whatever the reasons why people are attracted to police work, it does appear that many take the job home with them and then take-out their stress on the family members.

 

[SavannahMann]

It is interesting that Chicago has a double distinction. First, as one of the most corrupt police departments, and second, as having a high suicide rate among officers. I can't help but imagine that the two are interconnected.

I've written before that I believe most people who join the police are people who were picked on in High School, and it has affected them, badly. Some people who join are almost certainly naieve. These are the ones who join thinking they are something akin to the propaganda about being modern crusaders. They are the ones who deserve the thin blue line, because that is why they join. To protect the citizens, not just wrap themselves in the verbiage to justify their excessive behavior.

Now, imagine how those people think, and feel. They thought they were joining the good guys. It is physically repugnant to lie under oath for them. Even if they aren't abusing people, planting evidence, and lying about it, they feel the need to protect those who are. That brotherhood of the badge. They know if they report good old Bob for beating the snot out of the guy in handcuffs, that the other cops won't back them up when they need it.

The sociopathic types won't commit suicide. They are too self absorbed to even consider it. The ones who will take that final step are people who take a look in the mirror and can't live with what they've become. The Boy Scout types will feel isolated, and alone, and worst of all cornered. They can't imagine starting their lives over away from the cops. They may fear what the others will do if they decide to just quit and walk away. Worse, how do they become one of "them". The regular people who have faith in the Police, the types who are the cornerstone of the public support for law enforcement.

The book answer, stand up and tell the truth is tantamount to suicide. Just walking away is worse, especially if they have soothed their conscience by telling themselves that they are doing what they can to minimize the actions of the brutal, the pathological, the corrupt. What a position they would find themselves in. Not only protecting society from the criminal, but from those who are like himself supposedly trying to serve them.

They can't see themselves as a Serpico, one cop who stands up and exposes the truth. They know Serpico was shot because his fellow cops left him out there exposed. They know that Serpico got "get well" cards with scrawled why didn't you die scumbag scribbled inside while in the Hospital. Serpico overheard the cops who carried him to the Hospital say that if they had known it was Serpico who got shot they would have left him there to die.

That kind of courage is so amazingly rare that it is unimaginable. Another poster talked about the stress for family that the officers bring home. That stress is another sign. When you don't like what you are doing, the stress is multiplied. Take your own experiences. Remember fellow employees who were unhappy at work, and how that fed the home life unhappiness.

 

[waltky]

Two NYPD suicides in a span of two weeks last month...

Mayor 'Very Concerned' About NYPD Suicides
February 4, 2017 - Mayor Bill de Blasio was "very concerned" that two cops on Staten Island committed suicide in a span of two weeks last month.

"I'm very concerned," de Blasio said at an unrelated event on Friday. "The folks who protect us and serve us go through tons of stress, some that you can see and some that you can't even see because it's deep inside them, and we have to support them." Officer Yong Yun of Annadale died on Jan. 17 of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Officer Ralph Conde also died of an apparent suicide in his Great Kills home just 13 days later, on Jan. 30.

De Blasio said the city is trying to increase access to mental health services through NYC Well. Free and confidential support is available by calling 1-888-NYC-WELL, texting WELL to 65173 or going online at nyc.gov/nycwell. "I know NYPD does a lot to try and provide for anyone who's facing a mental health challenge or a job related stress," the mayor said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was "very concerned" that two cops on Staten Island committed suicide in a span of two weeks last month.​

Assigned to the 120th Precinct, Yun and his partner were named "Cop of the Month" in 2014 by the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce. Conde was assigned to the 121st Precinct and described in an obituary as an "outstanding police officer" by his colleagues. "The tragic thing when you look at those stories, is there are no signs," de Blasio said. "I can only imagine how much pain their families are in because there were no warning signs."

The mayor said that the city and NYPD need to do more to make mental health services available to police and other first responders. "The thing we have to focus on is relieving the stress that our first responders go through, and so many other people who serve us go through, by constantly making available to them if they need counseling, if they need mental health services, demystifying, destigmatizing and making it readily available," de Blasio said. "I think PD has come a long way in doing that, I think we have to keep doing it even more."

Mayor 'Very Concerned' About NYPD Suicides | Officer.com

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NYPD Officer Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
January 31, 2017 - NYPD Officer Ralph Conde was found dead Monday in his home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Sources have identified an off-duty cop who died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Great Kills. Ralph Conde, 33, was found Monday in his home at 57 Tanglewood Drive. Officers responded to a 911 call of a man shot inside that location at about 10:45 a.m., according to a statement for the NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Public Information. A neighbor said they looked across the street and saw three police cars and Conde's truck in the driveway. "I saw one of the cops upset and crying," he said. "I knew it was something bad."

Conde was supposed to go to department firing range and when he didn't show up, officers stopped at the house to check on him, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation Neighbors said Conde moved into his Great Kills home within the last year and made improvements to the driveway and backyard. Conde, a patrol officer with the 121 precinct, was the second officer on Staten Island to commit suicide over the past two weeks.

NYPD Officer Yong Yun of the 120th Precinct, a "Cop of the Month," was lauded at a service at John Vincent Scalia Home For Funerals in Eltingville following his death on Jan. 17. Yun had an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the neck when police responded to his residence on Dorval Avenue in Annadale.

NYPD Officer Found Dead in Apparent Suicide | Officer.com

 

[waltky]

Third Chicago Police Officer Takes Own Life in Two Months...

Third Chicago Police Officer Takes Own Life in Two Months

September 13, 2018 - A Chicago police officer apparently fatally shot herself in the parking lot of a Far South Side police station Wednesday morning

The officer, 54, was found unresponsive in the Calumet District parking lot at 727 E. 111th St. about 8 a.m., police said in a statement. She was inside her personal car and appeared to have suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police said clinicians and counselors have been made available to fellow officers at the Calumet District. “Crushing news for the department this morning as we grapple with the suicide of a veteran Chicago police officer who took her life inside her personal vehicle,’’ tweeted chief police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. “Please pray for this officer’s family and fellow officers."

A Chicago police officer apparently fatally shot herself in the parking lot of a Far South Side police station Wednesday morning.​

The Fraternal Order of Police tweeted, “Prayers, please. We have been informed that a Chicago Police Officer took her life this morning." The officer is the third Chicago cop to have taken their life in the last few months. In July, Officer Brandon Krueger shot and killed himself inside his squad car while on duty. Like the female officer, Krueger killed himself outside the Calumet District station. On Labor Day, Sgt. Steven Bechina was found unresponsive in his squad car in the West Loop. An autopsy determined he fatally shot himself and his death was ruled a suicide.

A proposed federal consent decree calls for the Police Department to provide more resources for officers seeking counseling. For example, the department has three licensed mental health professionals, but the decree would compel the department to raise that number to 10 by 2020. The decree was drafted after a scathing report on the department by the U.S. Justice Department. Among the findings were that the suicide rate among Chicago police officers was 60 percent higher than the national average.

Third Chicago Police Officer Takes Own Life in Two Months

 

[harmonica]

Must be all that guilt from murdering unarmed black children?

sure --- murder---children

 

[SavannahMann]

Must be all that guilt from murdering unarmed black children?

sure --- murder---children

Assault with deadly weapon in that case.



Shall I continue?

 

[harmonica]

Must be all that guilt from murdering unarmed black children?

sure --- murder---children

Assault with deadly weapon in that case.



Shall I continue?

1. he used the word ''children'' --plural
2. that is NOT murder
?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wtf are you talking about??
you are WAY off subject/etc.......not even close
when you get an example that is even fairly close, let me know

 

[Dan Stubbs]

Third Chicago Police Officer Takes Own Life in Two Months...

Third Chicago Police Officer Takes Own Life in Two Months

September 13, 2018 - A Chicago police officer apparently fatally shot herself in the parking lot of a Far South Side police station Wednesday morning

The officer, 54, was found unresponsive in the Calumet District parking lot at 727 E. 111th St. about 8 a.m., police said in a statement. She was inside her personal car and appeared to have suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police said clinicians and counselors have been made available to fellow officers at the Calumet District. “Crushing news for the department this morning as we grapple with the suicide of a veteran Chicago police officer who took her life inside her personal vehicle,’’ tweeted chief police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. “Please pray for this officer’s family and fellow officers."

A Chicago police officer apparently fatally shot herself in the parking lot of a Far South Side police station Wednesday morning.​

The Fraternal Order of Police tweeted, “Prayers, please. We have been informed that a Chicago Police Officer took her life this morning." The officer is the third Chicago cop to have taken their life in the last few months. In July, Officer Brandon Krueger shot and killed himself inside his squad car while on duty. Like the female officer, Krueger killed himself outside the Calumet District station. On Labor Day, Sgt. Steven Bechina was found unresponsive in his squad car in the West Loop. An autopsy determined he fatally shot himself and his death was ruled a suicide.

A proposed federal consent decree calls for the Police Department to provide more resources for officers seeking counseling. For example, the department has three licensed mental health professionals, but the decree would compel the department to raise that number to 10 by 2020. The decree was drafted after a scathing report on the department by the U.S. Justice Department. Among the findings were that the suicide rate among Chicago police officers was 60 percent higher than the national average.

Third Chicago Police Officer Takes Own Life in Two Months

High rate is due to illness, stress, personal problems. Some LEO s never have the problems but you get the weak who just should have never gotten involved in the Job. You do get into cases where as a first responder that mouth to mouth can get you a illness that will kill you. Some Police divers dive in places you would not want to stand next to, such as sewage canals, outlet pipes and other place like those. Health is a problem. You have other who are not very mentally able to handle the killing of another person, killing someone stays with you the rest of your life. Many cops think they can handle any problem, and are not able to speak of it in fear of losing there job. So they do have a full plate to deal with. I forgot the 7 to 10 year burn out that happens.

 

[Dan Stubbs]

The stress of being a police officer takes it's toll...

Suicide Rate High Among Chicago Officers
February 1, 2017 - The rate of suicide among officers with the Chicago Police Department is 60 percent higher than other departments across the U.S., a recently released Justice Department report found.

Life insurance claims information from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 estimates that among the departments nearly 10,000 patrol officers, an average of three officers will take their own lives each year, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.

Over the past decade, 13 Chicago police officers have been killed in the line of duty, but nearly twice as many officers committed suicide in the same time period. "There is a problem, and nobody’s doing anything about it," Ron Rufo, who was a peer support counselor for most his 21 years as an officer in the 9th District Rufo. "Supervisors don't talk about it. The rank-and-file don’t talk about it. And it’s like the administration does not want to admit it's a problem."

Chicago Police guard the scene of a shooting involving multiple victims, including an off-duty police officer, inside a parking garage on the 1200 Block of North State Parkway​

The Chicago Police Department's Employee Assistance Program -- which provides mental health services officers and staff -- currently only has three full-time counselors. The LAPD, which boasts a smaller number of employees, has a staff of 11 counselors.

Chicago FOP President Dean Angelo said that union leaders have urged department brass to create a program allowing officers to take time off or an administrative assignment when they were under stress or following a traumatic event. That suggestion was turned into the department's new policy of putting officers on desk duty for a mandatory 30 days following an on-duty shooting. Angelo said the move seems punitive to patrol officers. "We wanted an 'administrative timeout,' where you could go to your supervisor and say, 'Hey, I need some time,' and there would be a guarantee you could stay in your assignment and wouldn't be ostracized," he said. "Guys need that guarantee, or they're not going to talk."

Report: Suicide Rate High Among Chicago Police Officers | Officer.com

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Texas Deputy Kills Son, Self in Murder-Suicide
February 1, 2017 - Preliminary rulings from the Tarrant County medical examiner's office show that Young County Deputy Joseph Parker shot his 27-year-old son Kensy, then himself.

A North Texas deputy sheriff and his son died in a murder-suicide, officials said. Officers were called about 10:40 a.m. Thursday to the home of Joseph Parker in the 1300 block of Cherry Street after a family friend discovered two bodies in a bedroom, Graham police said.

Preliminary rulings from the Tarrant County medical examiner's office show that Parker shot his 27-year-old son Kensy, then himself, police said. Parker, 61, was last seen Jan. 24 when he left work early at about 4:30 p.m. The last time he had contact with anyone outside the home was through text message at about 9 p.m., police said. Graham police said in a prepared statement that the investigation has been difficult "for all the departments in our area."

Deputy Joseph Parker, left, and his son Kensy​

Parker and his son each had a single gunshot wound, and there was no sign of a forced entry or struggle. No note was found. "We will probably never know the reasoning as to why this happened, and while we do not condone his actions, we remember his service to the community and our hearts go out to the family," police said.

Parker, who retired after 20 years as a Graham police officer, was the Deputy Sheriff of Young County. He also served as a firefighter and arson investigator with the Graham Fire Department. Graham is located about 120 miles northwest of Dallas.

Texas Deputy Kills Son, Himself in Murder-Suicide | Officer.com

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NYPD Detective's Death Classified a Homicide
February 1, 2017 - The NYPD’s classification of Detective Steven McDonald’s death as a homicide decades after he was injured is often done in cases where crime victims die as a result of assaults and shootings that take a toll later in life.

NYPD Det. Steven McDonald’s death last month from an apparent heart attack has been classified as a 2017 homicide, even though he survived being shot by a teenager in Central Park in July 1986, officials said Tuesday. The NYPD’s classification of McDonald’s death as a homicide decades after he was injured is often done in cases where crime victims die as a result of assaults and shootings that take a toll later in life, a police spokesman said.

Detective Steven McDonald​

McDonald, of Malverne, was shot by Shavod Jones and left a quadriplegic, though a wheelchair gave him mobility and a respirator he used to breathe allowed him to talk. He was an active member of the NYPD until he died at age 59. McDonald, who was stricken Jan. 6, was taken off life support Jan. 10. His funeral Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan on Jan. 13 drew thousands of mourners.

Jones, who was sent to prison for attempted murder and was released in 1995, died in a motorcycle accident a few days after being freed. McDonald’s death has been factored into 2017 NYPD crime data. Through Sunday, there have been 17 killings for the year, compared with 22 in the same period in 2016.

NYPD Detective's Death Classified a Homicide | Officer.com

My roommate and I were made to attend a class on stress, and afterwards we were joking that we did not know we were suppose to get stressed out over our job. Dumb as a rock I suppose. I never had stress from the job, just from the management of the dept.
It seems that they were making rules that would get us killed if they were followed.