Editorial: The quiet crisis within CPD: Officers dying by suicide – Chicago Tribune

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Illinois Entrepreneur
4 years ago

I think this editorial misses the elephant in the room: the fact that officers are now seen in many minority neighborhoods as an enemy in a war, rather than as human beings. The dehumanizing of officers is what has changed, not the violence. Suicide is up, and I’m surprised more don’t see that this is probably a driving component, not the violence itself, as that has remained somewhat constant. Would you want to live and work in conditions where people video you constantly and then throw things at you while spewing hatred? This is what is happening on a daily… Read more »

debtsor
4 years ago

The overtime too makes for long hours in stressful situations at odd hours of the day. Lots of time away from the family. and the politics of big city police departments are notorious.

Rick
4 years ago

My wife knew Paul and she worked with his wife in Cicero school district, sad nobody saw it coming.

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