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Thread: Suicide rate outpaces line of duty deaths

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    Reading suicide studies revealed that white males are 2.5 times more likely to die from suicide than black males. Further, one article showed that black police officers have a suicide rate only slightly more than half the rate of white officers. Montana has the nation's highest suicide rate among its population and Washington D.C. the lowest. Since every state has numerous independent law enforcement agencies with much variation from one to the other, designing and conducting studies is difficult. Generalizing from available data may or may not yield valid conclusions. And then there can be variation from one region to another. It appears that insurance company data compiled over time may provide studies from which to draw accurate generalizations. Regardless, in this area some findings are controversial. Some do not agree(as we do)that a crisis exists. One reason that departments may not find training dollars for prevention is that if they pick and choose data, they can say that the problem does not exist or that if it does, there are no findings supporting the fact that prevention measures are effective. So what does all this verbiage mean? It means that you guys will have to beat the drum and carry out the effort from the bottom up. Help may not originate at the top. One reason that the topic interests me is that I have lost friends and relatives to suicide. One uncle had been a sheriff.
    Last edited by willie; 01-20-2019 at 03:53 PM.

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