Meet Heidi. She is like many of our listeners – wife of a police officer, mom to two little boys, is concerned about the current affairs of policing in the U.S., is trying to make her marriage work, and works as a trauma nurse to help support her family.
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He was there when my son, David Glasser, a Phoenix Police Officer, went to work on May 18, 2016....
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It just comes down to doing our job in a way that is pleasing to Him and remembering where our “power” comes from.
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We all hear the term “aftermath”, but what does it really mean? For people like Jeff, it means that there are few who understand the world you now live in.
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If we knew that lack of self-control, or impulsive behavior, was a risk factor for officer suicide, then wouldn’t we want to address the lack of self-control in an attempt to prevent the suicide?
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Why is that 99% of us can keep an oath to the government, but we have such a hard time keeping the oath to our spouses?
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As I write this, the 2017 International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) Conference in full swing. As such, it seemed like a great time to present an article on training.
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The initial hit slammed Lujan’s head into the windshield. Gonzalez-Rios put the SUV in reverse and ran over Lujan again and then shifted into drive and ran over him a third time.
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One area in which progress is being made is in the increased implementation of programs such as peer support, employee assistance programs (EAP’s), and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) teams.
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This column continues the conversation about law enforcement suicide – and the story of three officers whose lives intersected for less than hour but were changed forever.
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Buried among the facts and figures in the Justice Department’s recent book-length report on the failings of the Chicago Police Department was a telling statistic.
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While we have generally reliable data each year on the numbers of Americans who have died by their own hand, the ability to identify those suicides that occurred among first responders are not readily identified as a subset of all suicides
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