I guess I'm a cynic at heart since my mind went directly to this being somehow related to harrasment by their peers rather than being depressed about the public not appreciating them.
Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
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Re: Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just one of many lies Capitol Police specifically faced: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-gover...
totally off topic, but as a European reader I'm getting the following message on that website: > Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to your market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism. Come…
Strange, I'm also from an European country, but can see the site fine
Re: Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
totally off topic, but as a European reader I'm getting the following message on that website: > Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to your market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism. Come…
They really don't, and FFS, I refuse to ever agree to a cookie question on a site I do NOT create a sign-in for. I block those elements and disable javascript, etc. I'm saddened that 3 years later they still haven't given up trying to demand things I'm never giving them. Too many have given in to the Windows UAC / Popup 'just click yes' illness of security fatigue.
Just use Firefox with Total Cookie Protection (each domain you visit gets an isolated cookie jar) and set the "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" option.
You are now free to carelessly click on and accept any random cookie that comes your way. Just restart once a week or so for Firefox updates and you are a completely new person.
Re: Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just one of many lies Capitol Police specifically faced: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-gover...
Your link is actually a great example of the confusion that has led to harassment and hatred of Capitol Police officers. The Capitol Police (Controlled by Congress), DC Metro Police (Mayor of DC) and DC Protective Services (Mayor of DC) were the good guys in almost all of this. The Park Police (subject of your link), Secret Service, Federal Protective Service, US Marshal Service, and DC National Guard were all under…
From the perspective of someone beaten up by a police officer, there is no way to distinguish from which part of the police he just got beat up.
Re: Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some communities have also been disproportionately persecuted by the police for, a very long time. Maybe it's a legacy of slavery and later segregation. Maybe it's a lack of unifying national spirit (the melting pot of cultural assimilation and a desire to be a small spice in a greater whole) which might have just been wishful thinking on the part of history book authors. I suspect most of the non-anarchist who feel…
I agree yet am not really confident in that the police can be de-militarized in a country where every minor criminal has a gun and living is segregated in a way so some neighborhoods actually are much more dangerous than others.
The police haven't always been as militarized as they are now. We could easily go back.
I think ending the drug war with legalization and decriminalization and ending no-knock warrants without extreme circumstances would go a long way.
Re: Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Some communities have also been disproportionately persecuted by the police for, a very long time." Are you friggin' serious? It's OK if a police officer commits suicide, because some other people harassed some other people before?
Not what I said. Please do not put words like that in anyone's mouth.
I don't see how it is not what you said. What point were you trying to make?
Re: Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
#27From a little light Googling I don't see that any police officers connected to the 100+ nights of rioting and protests in Portland killed themselves. Why would one event result in so many suicides while the other didn't?
Re: Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
#28Well, yeah, police was endlessly demonized and underfunded in the past decade. There are a few bad apples, but that doesn't justify group guilt and neglect. Rioters should have never been able to attack Capitol OR government buildings in Seattle/Portland. Not saying that Jan 6 was not a bigger threat to the union of those events, although vast majority of rioters were simple hooligans with no credible plans to gain o…
> police was endlessly demonized and underfunded in the past decade. https://cfo.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ocfo/publica... suggests that the DC police have had a stable budget since at least 2018. https://ibo.nyc.ny.us/RevenueSpending/nypd.html suggests that NYPD have had an increasing budget since 1980 . https://www.injusticewatch.org/data/2020/chicago-has-nearly-... suggests that Chicago PD have had an in…
DC has the 7th highest population growth rate in the country https://dc.gov/release/2020-census-data-shows-dcs-population...
NY metro area has added the population of Los Angeles (4m) since 1980 https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/23083/new-york-city/popul...
Chicago Metro has grown from 6.5 million in '64 to 8.8 million https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22956/chicago/population
Re: Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree yet am not really confident in that the police can be de-militarized in a country where every minor criminal has a gun and living is segregated in a way so some neighborhoods actually are much more dangerous than others.
The police haven't always been as militarized as they are now. We could easily go back. I think ending the drug war with legalization and decriminalization and ending no-knock warrants without extreme circumstances would go a long way.
As for this - yes, I'm rather sure. The drug war is evil. I'm glad some states are legalizing psychedelics already. I would add that zero-tolerance policies by which people loose jobs and schools for trace amounts of light drugs found in their urine samples after a weekend should be banned too.
Re: Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide
#30"More than a dozen US Capitol Police officers are under internal investigation for allegedly helping rioters"
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/13/politics/capitol-insurrec...
Perhaps the relentless attacks from the media and some members of congress could be part of it.
I do suspect this is covid related if it's not a statistical anomaly / incorrect pattern finding. It's messed with everyone's heads and we are going to see that coming out with certain sub-groups before others.