I have a dark suspicion - like the “under toad” (John Irving ref.) that at least some of these officers who have killed themselves recently are in some way connected - on the wrong side - with the current sex trafficking storm.
Hope not though. It’s a tough job, and many have been in military combat. Lots of stress in those positions.
I went through the local "Citizen's Police Academy" for fourteen weeks last winter. It included a trip to the County's Correctional Facility. It's a prison that is a cluster of mini-prisons - each with a specific type of population. One of the five pods was for solitary confinement. Each pod has a central command station (and there's one in the main office which oversees all the pods in the cluster and the hallways between pods.
The pod's command station monitors all the cameras in the pod. They did not have cameras in the individual cells. However, there were two inmates on suicide watch. A corrections officer was stationed at a chair facing into the cell. Their job is to watch the inmate and every 15 minutes write a report in their log. That is a brutal job, one I would not want in a million years.
What are your views on our motor vehicle and traffic laws, our laws on domestic violence, robbery, embezzlement, fraud, and rape? Are THEY working “good enough?”
I’ll hang up and listen to your answer on the air.