CHICAGO HAS A RECORD POLICE SUICIDE RATE

CHICAGO HAS A RECORD POLICE SUICIDE RATE 

Last year was the deadliest year in Chicago in 19 years with 762 murders, according to data from the Chicago Police Department. 

But residents aren't the only victims of the violence. According to an investigation by the Department of Justice, Chicago officers are committing suicide at an alarming rate.

"There were times where I truly thought I’d be better off dead than alive," said Officer Brian Warner, who was diagnosed with PTSD after fatally shooting a man in 2011.

In January, the Department of Justice released the findings from an investigation into the Chicago Police Department. Hidden between the findings of police brutality and excessive force was this:

"This would mean that CPD's officer suicide rate is more than 60% higher than the national average."

—Department of Justice investigation

The report found that according to the police union, Fraternal Order of Police in Chicago, there were 29.4 suicides per 100,000 from 2013 to 2015.

The national average for police officers (when you take all individual studies into account) is 18.1, according to Radford University researchers.

For the record, the Chicago Police Department reports that the rate is 22.7 suicides per 100,000 department members.

Warner says he contemplated suicide after he was involved in a headline-making "critical incident."

A man he and his partner had apprehended and placed in the car held up a gun and shot Warner as Warner was driving. Warner's instinct was to shoot the man. The man later died.

Six years after that event, Warner has PTSD.

Immediately after the incident, he went to the Employee Assistance Program, but he felt the help they gave him wasn't enough.

"A mandatory one-time session and two days off to debrief. And then they say, 'OK, you can go back to work.' I don’t think that’s adequate," Warner said.

In lieu of therapy, "I self-medicated," Warner says. "I drank enough to fall asleep. Each night I’d go to work and through the motions."It wasn't until two years of sleepless nights after the incident that Warner was diagnosed with PTSD, upon a visit to the doctor.

"My doctors and I put together a whole protocol on how I could return back to work safely," said Warner. "We presented that to the city and the city chose to put me on disability instead of implementing the program."

Warner says he thinks the city didn't want to have to implement a robust program for others as well, which is exactly what he wanted to happen.http://circa.com/world/chicago-has-a-cop-suicide-problem-and-no-solution-just-yet

My comments: Chicago is a City controlled by the godless, Socialist, Secular Humanist Democrats. The Party that wants to IMPOSE their godless TYRANNY on the Nation.