Police suicides can exceed line-of-duty deaths

By Arthur Page

Release Date: November 13, 2005 This content is archived.

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An article in the Orlando Sentinel on a Central Florida police officer who killed his two children and himself reports that each year, so many police officers kill themselves across America that the number of suicides sometimes exceeds those who die in the line of duty and quotes John Violanti, research professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, who says "Murder-suicides are on the increase in police families." Go to article.