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A study in the United States, by National Surveillance of Police Suicide Study (NSOPS), showed 141 suicides in 2008 and 143 in 2009. This yields a suicide rate of 17/100,000, a figure that holds up under scrutiny and is consistent with CDC/NOMS data. [16] The overall suicide rate in the United States was 11.3 suicide deaths per 100,000 people. [17]
Suicide by cop (SbC), [1] also known as suicide by police or law-enforcement-assisted suicide, [2] is a suicide method in which a suicidal individual deliberately behaves in a threatening manner with intent to provoke a lethal response from a public safety or law enforcement officer [3] to end their own life.
A 2018 white paper, commissioned by the Ruderman Family Foundation, found that U.S. police officers and U.S. firefighters were more likely to die by suicide than in the line of duty. Both police and firefighters have considerably higher rates of suicide when compared to the population at large.
For police officers, stressors on the job pile up, and can take a toll on cops and their families. ... First Help and CNA Corporation, more than 1,200 officers died by suicide in the seven-year ...
When an Oneida tribal police department officer died by suicide in 2017, it shook the close-knit community of police officers to its core. “His tragic situation definitely had an effect on every ...
Officer Howard Liebengood, 51, was assigned to the Senate Division of the Capitol Police Department. He died by suicide days after the Capitol attack.
Police officers often carry an ... homicide rate of 5.6 per 100,000, while police faced a homicide rate of 3 per 100,000. ... able to submit suicide information for ...
The family of a Capitol Police officer who died by suicide after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol said the Justice Department has recognized the death as occurring in the line of duty, a ...