Actually, most of the police suicides happen because of:
Marital issues. (Crazy women who think cops will protect them are like magnets for cops).
Alcohol or drug addiction.
Informed on another cop. Other cops conspire against them, often shunning them or planting/reporting false evidence. Ironically, many who make it to Deputy Chief are cops who can't be fired but none of the other cops like them and refuse to ride with them. So they get promoted LOL.
Investigated for a crime they actually committed. (They know there is NOTHING those lifers in prison want more than a crooked cop on their side of the bars...especially if it was an assault or some other mistreatment (eg. fraud/harassment) of the general public)
PTSD from exposure to unfortunate scenes. I will concede that ...
attempting but failing to rescue someone
investigating a murder of a child or other innocent person (eg. old woman in her home)
discovering/recovering a body
knowing a repeat domestic abuser's victim won't testify and keeps going back to their abuser
... can be very difficult to cope with.
And every day, cops are exposed to criminal minds while at the same time their job is to, with those criminals, go out and catch other criminals.
Or maybe they suddenly realize that the drug problems in their own community which cause so much strife were caused by them going into schools and teaching the kids all the different kinds of street drugs, all the names they go by, how they are used, how they make someone feel... and then they tell them not to do them. Unfortunately, the human mind is unable to process a negative command.
DO NOT think of a big blue elephant on this white screen.
Actually, most of the police suicides happen because of:
... can be very difficult to cope with.
And every day, cops are exposed to criminal minds while at the same time their job is to, with those criminals, go out and catch other criminals.
Or maybe they suddenly realize that the drug problems in their own community which cause so much strife were caused by them going into schools and teaching the kids all the different kinds of street drugs, all the names they go by, how they are used, how they make someone feel... and then they tell them not to do them. Unfortunately, the human mind is unable to process a negative command.
DO NOT think of a big blue elephant on this white screen.
Order followers are scum.