Why Do Capitol Hill Police Keep Turning Up Dead?
Our country is becoming fact-blind as politicized and often erroneous reporting crowds out real news.
By Adam Mill
August 12, 2021
On the day of the January 6 Capitol unrest, 1700 officers from 18 law enforcement agencies responded to the incident. Four officers have since died from apparent suicide.
That might seem like a point of grim trivia until one considers how atypical these suicides are. The military has long fretted over the tragically high suicide rate among our veterans, roughly “27.5 per 100,000 individuals in 2018 . . . By comparison, among all U.S. adults, the suicide rate per 100,000 was 18.3.” According to the Centers for Disease Control, men engaged in professions related to mining, quarrying, oil and gas, have the highest suicide rates of any profession (even above our veterans) at 52.2 per 100,000 per year.
All four of the officers who apparently committed suicide were among the responding officers. Four suicides in roughly six months among a sample of 1,700 suggests a suicide rate of 470 suicides per 100,000 per year. That would mean that since January 6, responding D.C.-based police commit suicide at a rate that’s almost 10 times the most suicide-prone profession and more than 20 times the rate among U.S. veterans.
That’s a disturbing pattern and it should be investigated.
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