by saulroth | Nov 2, 2021 | Police Suicide
Image Credit: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. By Saul Roth A position that accumulates large amounts of acute stress will often produce dangerous chronic stress over an extended period of time. Anshel et al. (1997) explained that officers suffer...
by saulroth | Oct 26, 2021 | Police Suicide
Image Credit: Ryan Joseph Daley, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Saul Roth Prior to committing suicide, people are usually depressed. Violanti (2008) found in his study of a mid-size police department that those officers experiencing depression had a higher...
by saulroth | Oct 12, 2021 | Police Suicide
Image Credit: I, I’m nonpartisan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Saul Roth I have uncovered many studies and articles concerning police stress and police suicide. From my experience of over 37 years as the law enforcement professional, I believe that...
by saulroth | Oct 5, 2021 | Police Suicide
Image Credit: André Gustavo Stumpf from Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Saul Roth On the other hand, there is a possible misconception that police officers consume more alcohol than the general public. A study of police officers in Mississippi by Lindsey,...
by saulroth | Sep 28, 2021 | Police Suicide
Image Credit: André Gustavo Stumpf from Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Saul Roth Many police officers maintain their workplace attitudes when home with the family. At work an officer has to exert an authoritarian stance, a behavior that does not always...
by saulroth | Sep 21, 2021 | Police Suicide
Image Credit: André Gustavo Stumpf from Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Saul Roth I was a corrections officer for two years on two different correction departments, during which I experienced a similar administrative structure in corrections as I have in...
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