NYPD Officer Fatally Shoots Himself
He was assigned to the NYPD Housing Bureau’s Public Service Area 7, which patrols public housing projects in the South Bronx.
He was assigned to the NYPD Housing Bureau’s Public Service Area 7, which patrols public housing projects in the South Bronx.
Emma lost Steve long before he physically died, it’s one of the things she struggles with daily.
His family is seeking full death benefits in the lawsuit because Benitez 'died on the job based on emotional stress negligently caused by the NYPD'.
Cumulative PTSD can be even more dangerous than PTSD caused from a single traumatic event, largely because cumulative PTSD is more likely to go unnoticed and untreated.
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.
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.
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 ...
Not surprisingly, the method of death for 92% of the suicides was gunfire.
I’m intrigued not because it is my nature as a policeman and human being honoring the dignity of others, but also because I looked into the recesses of a buddy’s ...
The officer in charge of the evidence room, Susan Zopatti, killed herself in May after learning of the audit. Shortly after her death, police recovered two of the missing firearms ...