Opinion: Talking openly about police suicide is an important and long-overdue first step
By Karen Tumulty Karen Tumulty Columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist April 4 at 5:08 PM NEW YORK
“We do so much for everybody else. Very rarely do we talk about ourselves,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said. “Nobody wants to take a step forward. Nobody wants to be branded, and we have to get past that.” What individual departments do know is what is happening right in front of them. Chicago, for instance, used to see one or two police suicides annually, First Deputy Superintendent Anthony Riccio says. In the second half of last year, there were six, and already in 2019, there have been three. Riccio choked up as he told of a female officer who showed up for roll call, then went out to her patrol car to take her life.
In most cases in which officers decide to end their own lives, a number of factors are believed to have contributed, building up over time: trauma, depression, financial difficulties, problems at home, irregular hours, substance abuse. There is no simple answer, in part because, for cops, taking a firearm away is traditionally a disciplinary measure.
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