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Police Officer Suicides, Part II

 

More Suicides than deaths by gunfire and traffic accidents combined.

 

 

Police Officer Suicide Numbers

 

By year and Number of Deaths

 

2016-143

2017-168

2018-172

2019-228

 

 

 

Decay

 

Yesterday, when the body snatchers came to collect the corpse, I asked,

 

How liquid is he?

 

The ME replied, “He should be fine. He’s only been down two or three days. “

 

The crew started stripping the body and stopped.

 

“He has blisters. “

 

They ceased undressing the man, put him into the bag, and rolled him away.

 

 

Death

 

When I retire, one of things I won't miss about work is the smell of decaying bodies. 

 

 

 

 

Eight

 

The number of traffic fatalities for the year has now reached eight. 

The last two: 

A utility truck ran over a man sleeping on the sidewalk in the dark.

A bicyclist ran a light in the dark was hit by a truck.

 

 

2019 Officer Deaths

 

 

In 2019, ninety officers were killed in the line of duty. 48 were murdered. 42 were killed in accidents.

 

As a reference number, 106 officers were killed in 2018. Fifty six were murdered.

 

The South led the US in officer deaths with 27 murdered and 23 killed in accidents.

 

The Northeast had the least with one officer murdered and three killed in accidents.

 

Of the officers killed by accident in 2019, 16 were struck and killed by vehicles as pedestrians. 21 died in vehicle crashes.

 

 

 

 

 

Another Work Night, Another Death

 

Snorting ground oxy and smoking meth don't mix. 

 

 

Calluses and Cuts

 

It's not liquefying corpse of the elderly woman on the floor that bothers me, but carrying her dehydrated and starving cat to my car, so I can drive it to the Emergency Vet Hospital cuts a little too quick.

 

Three

 

The city is on its third traffic fatality of the year.  A transient was sleeping in a driveway near a garage. The home owner backed over the person as he pulled out of the garage in the night. 

 

 

Traffic Fatalities

 

With a handful of days left in the year, the traffic fatality total despite Vision Zero is  up to 50.