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During the month with Police Memorial Week, we need to come to grips with the reality of police suicide, and add it to the training checklist for officer survival.

We kill ourselves by a 3 to 1 ratio more than we are killed by others. The ratio may actually be much higher because many police suicides are purposefully misclassified on death certificates as accidents or undetermined deaths. The rate of police suicide is also more than three times that of the general population. And those rates are increasing compared with a decade ago.

All potential suicide victims have a well-defined pattern of early suicide predictors, and police officers follow these same patterns. However, we also have a ...

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