From firearms-alert-owner Tue Jan 3 15:47:53 1995 Received: (chan@localhost) by jobe.shell.portal.com (8.6.9/8.6.5) id PAA21833 for firearms-alert-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 15:43:40 -0800 Received: from nova.unix.portal.com (nova.unix.portal.com [156.151.1.101]) by jobe.shell.portal.com (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id PAA21824 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 15:43:37 -0800 From: dfw@netcom.com Received: from netcom11.netcom.com (root@netcom11.netcom.com [192.100.81.121]) by nova.unix.portal.com (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id PAA20049 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 15:43:34 -0800 Received: by netcom11.netcom.com (8.6.9/Netcom) id PAA04391; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 15:29:52 -0800 Message-Id: <199501032329.PAA04391@netcom11.netcom.com> Subject: Police suicide deaths To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 15:29:51 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 958 Sender: firearms-alert-owner@shell.portal.com Precedence: bulk Status: RO This article was printed in the Dec 31, 1994 Orange County, (California), Register. It is interesting to note that more than 2/3 of the officer deaths were from suicide and 12 of those were in New York. Dan dfw@netcom.com =========================================== More than twice as many police officers committed suicide this year than those who were killed in the line of duty by guns or other causes, the National Association of Chiefs of Police reported Friday. The police group said 300 police officers -- among more than 700,000 law-enforcement people nationwide -- committed suicide this year according to preliminary 1994 tallies. Of the total, 12 suicides occurred in New York City, which the group said was a record. And the organization said there were 137 deaths among police officers by means other than suicide in the Line of duty and 75 of them were caused by shootings -- a record 54.7 per cent of deaths caused by fire- arms.