More police officers are committing suicide due to 'demonization', expert says

Those officers didn't blame anyone themselves and there is no evidence anywhere that they killed themselves because of whatever this hack is claiming. This is one of the quotes "expert" gave them:

In the end, their brain and sadness cause them to act in such a terrible way

their brains caused them to do this, this had to be specifically stated because brains are often not associate with decision making. and of course brains and sadness are two separate things. Sadness might cause you to kill yourself but not your brains.

Glenn also claimed that the George Floyd protests in 2020, coupled with the defund the police movement supported by elected officials,

without anything to back up her claims:

“And they have sort of been cut off from society and engaging in making people happy with “coffee with a cop” and things like that. All these things have really come to a screeching halt between the pandemic and what happened after George Floyd. So, they’re isolated. Their mental health is suffering, the trauma is compounding, and it’s just this perfect storm for what’s happening there,” Glenn added.

You got any statements from people who killed themselves? did you treat them or talk to them? or their families or friends? are you in any way connected to those people at all to make claims about why they died? Just sounds like you are using their deaths to push your own politics. Is any of this even unexpected? Do you have any statistics in general that would show increase in police suicides and show evidence to back up your reasoning about why they did it? What do relatives of these people think about you using these people to push your politics?

the list of officers:

  • Officer Paul Carreon, who committed suicide in April after 19 years of service.
  • Officer Paul Zavala, who served for 28 years and committed suicide two weeks after retiring in June.
  • Police officer Justin Garcia, who committed suicide in August after serving six years.
  • Detective Frank Rodriguez, who committed suicide in September after 15 years of service.
  • Finally, officer Jordan Hammond, who committed suicide in October after five years of service.

All had been working for a while and probably had seen plenty but I guess it's politics that did them in, I mean I can't think of anything else associated with police, like PTSD, alcoholism, drug addictions or depression because of what they have seen and experienced.

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