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4 current and former LA sheriff’s employees die by suicide in 24h
by 8DonCo Sun Nov 12, 2023 8:36 am
Inside the ‘pressure cooker’: 4 current and former LA sheriff’s employees die by suicide in less than 24 hours
When former police officer Omar Delgado heard the news of four current and former members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department dying by suicide in less than 24 hours last week, he understood.
“It’s kind of like a pressure cooker. If you don’t slowly let go of that steam little by little, when it does pop, it’s over because it’s going to be such a big explosion.”
Delgado was one of the first officers on the scene of the Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando on June 12, 2016. He suffers post-traumatic stress disorder from that night, and has attempted to take his own life twice.
“They just popped,” he said.
The deaths were unprecedented, with so many in a single agency in such a short time frame, begging the need for enhanced mental health resources and incentives for officers to recognize, seek and accept help when they need it, law enforcement experts said.
Richard Pippin, president of the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, told CNN the losses hit an agency dealing with low morale and severe staffing shortages.
The numbers are stark. On any given day, the department is short roughly 4,000 employees in an agency budgeted to have more than 17,000, according to a department budget report released earlier this year.
“With all the hiring the department has been able to do over six months, they were able to achieve a net gain of 15 employees. In other words, they’re just treading water. People are leaving as fast as they get hired,” Pippin said.
In some cases, officers are working up to 70 hours per week, Pippin said. “They aren’t seeing their families. It’s an arduous, stressful job,” he said.
The sheriff’s department in Los Angeles County isn’t alone. Police agencies nationwide have been struggling [size=16]to fill and keep their ranks since the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 death of George Floyd, which sparked protests and scrutiny of law enforcement biases across the country.[/size]
From one call to the next, law enforcement officers meet people at the most difficult moments in their lives, he added.
“… And to deal with that, such a high percentage of your waking hours, week after week, and month after month, it’s wearing on them,” Pippin said.
Nine members of the department have died by suicide this year, a number far surpassing recent years: one in 2022, three in 2021 and two in 2020, Pippin said.
When former police officer Omar Delgado heard the news of four current and former members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department dying by suicide in less than 24 hours last week, he understood.
“It’s kind of like a pressure cooker. If you don’t slowly let go of that steam little by little, when it does pop, it’s over because it’s going to be such a big explosion.”
Delgado was one of the first officers on the scene of the Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando on June 12, 2016. He suffers post-traumatic stress disorder from that night, and has attempted to take his own life twice.
“They just popped,” he said.
A stressful job in a field struggling to fill the ranks
The deaths were unprecedented, with so many in a single agency in such a short time frame, begging the need for enhanced mental health resources and incentives for officers to recognize, seek and accept help when they need it, law enforcement experts said.
Richard Pippin, president of the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, told CNN the losses hit an agency dealing with low morale and severe staffing shortages.
The numbers are stark. On any given day, the department is short roughly 4,000 employees in an agency budgeted to have more than 17,000, according to a department budget report released earlier this year.
“With all the hiring the department has been able to do over six months, they were able to achieve a net gain of 15 employees. In other words, they’re just treading water. People are leaving as fast as they get hired,” Pippin said.
In some cases, officers are working up to 70 hours per week, Pippin said. “They aren’t seeing their families. It’s an arduous, stressful job,” he said.
The sheriff’s department in Los Angeles County isn’t alone. Police agencies nationwide have been struggling [size=16]to fill and keep their ranks since the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 death of George Floyd, which sparked protests and scrutiny of law enforcement biases across the country.[/size]
From one call to the next, law enforcement officers meet people at the most difficult moments in their lives, he added.
“… And to deal with that, such a high percentage of your waking hours, week after week, and month after month, it’s wearing on them,” Pippin said.
Nine members of the department have died by suicide this year, a number far surpassing recent years: one in 2022, three in 2021 and two in 2020, Pippin said.
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Re: 4 current and former LA sheriff’s employees die by suicide in 24h
by ga10 Mon Nov 13, 2023 3:26 pm
Tại sao họ 0 kiếm việc làm khác mà phải suicide?
ga10
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