Another?
Word of another Officer committing suicide yesterday.
The Chaplains (and even EAP) are ready, willing and able to take your calls if you're having a bad time. It's gotten far better than it used to be when we were new.
The holidays are fast approaching and that has always been a rough time for everyone, including the police. Keep an eye on your co-workers and friends.
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posted by SCC at 9:01 AM
62 Comments:
But people want to make fun of those on the medical or IOD like they themselves are made of steel guess what retard you are not and no one gives a damn about you unless you take care of yourself- for those that are suffering there is help to recalibrate to feel better again- you’re not alone we all get upset and bitter but you have to believe that talk therapy helps! When you call eap if you don’t like one eap rep try another (male to
Female) whatever you’re comfortable with! It’s 2024 this world is a different place we all need help that backwards mentality of teasing if sick can get you sued now so keep it up!! And I can take shit from people on the street but I expect professionalism with my peers and supervisors no matter what if they like me or not otherwise they getting hell
To those suffering- remember- study done that 100% of failed suicides realized that they were lucky they survived and realized immediately they made a mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So Don’t do it!!! Call a chaplain seek God it helps!
when you are police officer you are at war never give into the enemy do not commit suicide
I live for that day when no officer has to succumb to suicide. Can't stress enough that there are always people who really care. When you find yourself in that very dark place, please reach out. There is nothing in your darkest corner that should lead you to suicide. Problems are temporary and life goes on, those around you suffer the most when you are gone. The police family is too big, too caring, very complex, but I don't know any officer who isn't willing to help, please reach out.
One of the best people I’ve met, on this job or otherwise. She would light up any room she walked in to with her smile and attitude. Knew her almost a decade and I don’t think I can remember but handful of times where she wasn’t joking around and having fun. I can remember plenty of times coming into work in a bad mood for one reason or another, but it never lasted long, not with her around. It was impossible to be around her and remain in a bad mood. She was truly an incredible human being and it breaks my heart she was in that much pain, she deserved far better. I love you Carmen, rest easy.
This department doesn't care. They put out an email whenever someone dies, telling us they care about our wellness, but that's all a sham. And most of the department members only care about their boats and Harleys and summer homes. Forget trying to get help before it becomes a crisis. Everyone will shun you and talk shit behind your back. You will lose your "spot" or your car or your start time. And not ONE supervisor or command staff will ever check on you or even acknowledge you if you come back. This is not a "blue family." It's just another city job, and you are just an employee number. When you become that employee number, you lose your humanity. If you are staying with this department, please find yourself another purpose in life and a real family and friends. If you put your heart and soul into this job you will die disappointed and alone.
No one makes fun truly ill individuals, unless your a stroke or “retard”. It’s a different world and calling someone a “retard” canter you sued. So take your own advice pal.
Retired now but when I was a Sgt, my Lt's called me into the station. I was wondering what the hell I had done wrong (lol). I sat down in the office and they knew I was stressed, burnt out, and out of sorts. They asked me what was going on and I just broke down. They saved me and after a long talk I agreed I needed some help. I went to EAP several times. I was lucky that I had supervisors who actually cared. If you are feeling stressed, burnt out, having family problems, etc, get help. We are the police but we still have feelings and lives. There is nothing to be ashamed of. Don't let the job and demons get to you!
I have several friends who committed suicide. You will always be missed. Consider how it will effect others. Don't make that sacrifice, call a friend and ask for help.
Amen. If you put your heart and soul into this job for over 30 yrs, you will die disappointed and alone. Starting to get trapped into that very black corner brothers and sisters. Must go cry now. Used to be so good.
I don’t know how some supervisors live with themselves
Everyday is a battle. On the job, in your personal life. Wake up everyday and look in the mirror and say today I am going to win! I did it it for 25 years and it worked. To those officers struggling be advised..we love you!
A permanent solution to a temporary problem...
Most people will not seek out help. When it happens all you hear is “I had no idea”. “He or she is the last person I expected to do that”. They hide it and hide it well from everyone
Veterans have a similar problem. If you are a veteran with suicidal ideation dial 988 24/7 despite the MSM's reporting the Department of Veterans affairs Medical division has the resources to help.
Sad, but you are right.
YOU are soooo RIGHT!!! No boss ever gives a shit about you, never asks how your doing when you come back off the medical or IOD or anything. Fuck this Dept..YOU and your family come first!!!
While it's true the department doesn't give a fuck about, I know first hand, I earned my summer house and Harley, but they mean nothing to me when it comes to a officer in need of help. I experinced many traumatic events on CPD...The last one only two officers reached out to me...both had decades on the job, the youngsters who called me for advice and guidance never reached out but they were on western Ave talking shit!
Fuckin’ A right. Been on 30+, seen WAY too many coworkers commit suicide, any all the department ever does is put out some bullshit email that is occasionally reworded to some extent. Just like almost every other aspect of this job, CPD is reactionary. And then their half-assed expression of caring and compassion is short lived. The surviving family of my last PO friend to take his own life hasn’t been contacted by anyone associated with this stuff (EAP, chaplains, HR) in over a year. They followed up for a few months after his death while all the financial, medical, insurance things were dealt with and then disappeared. Keep your friends you had BEFORE you came on this shit job close as 99% of the people you’ll meet while employed with CPD are phony motherfuckers.
Sad- it’s often the people others rely on to lift their spirits that don’t seek help for themselves. She knew how to mask her emotions. It was never intentional just how she was wired. It sounds like she was an incredible person and that you knew her well. Please seek out someone to talk to about her and this loss. Even if she just touched your life in a peripheral way, these events have a way of blind siding a person.
Please talk to a priest, a man or woman in blue,family member or call a hotline 988
Sadly I’ve known more police who died by their own hand than were murdered
I can attest to all of the above having been suicidal after the loss of a child. Not only did the dept want to fire me for losing my FOID(good old then Sgt Ken Johnson all the while stealing his dead mother’s SS $ handed me my No Pay Status papers). I got an anonymous note in the police mail after a year gone - calling me all sorts of names. Not all of us have supportive families. In fact being the police often distances you from others. I can’t tell you how many times I felt like a leper in social situations with non police. Not only did I not have the child I had waited for so long, I had a fiancé who left me two weeks after the loss & in a month had a new girlfriend. I felt annihilated and in denial for months. I went to work for nine months and did my jobs - until one day I just fell apart. The big myth of my “police family” was shattered, because in the end I was alone. Not one call from co workers I thought were close, I helped garden, painted baby nursery rooms for, attended weddings, went to promotional parties. Surprisingly, the light came from one person I knew only very casually at work. There were no support officers then. It just happened to be one very kind person who took a few minutes to check in on me. At the end of the day, I got to the finish line, but I was never the same. The job I cared about for 15 years before that event became nothing more than a job afterwards. Happiness is fleeting. Reflect on gratitude - as small as you need it to be to make it to the end of the day.
A lot of white shirts are to blame. They'll do whatever to climb higher including stress the fuck out of POs. Right right you're one of the good bosses. Sure keep saying that to yourself. Now go bring activity or we'll fuck with your schedule so you can't see your family.
Never underestimate the void you'll absence will leave...
You can have all the material things In this world but NOTHING will fill that void. Only TRULY coming to Jesus will. So many people in the department are quick to look for “remedies” to cope with. BUT ignore truly coming to JESUS I know it’s hard because it means giving up so much but that’s the point. We shouldn’t store treasures for ourselves on this earth as Jesus says. Jesus SAVES. JESUS is love. This comes from a former lover of worldly materialistic things they are temporary happiness not PERMANENT HAPPINESS. GOD bless us all.
Suicide is a spirit that needs to be delivered from please check out bill weise the guy that seen he’ll and it will humble you !!!!!!! And make you thank God everyday you’re alive and forgive everyone!!!!! Trust me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Google him!!!
As a grown man in my thirties I probably could’ve came up with better words but point taken
need better ways to relieve stress... Alcohol is the worst thing for anyone to have when in depression state. All those other meds fuck your mind and twist it around. We need better alternatives. it's been proven that mirco dosing psychedelics aka shrooms or Marijuana reduces PTSD and rebuild the mind. no more unnecessary meds on top of more meds..
This job will eat people alive. Spent 30 years in the same district and about 10 officers from there took their lives. Most were a surprise but a few were not. Most were by gunfire, a few were pill poppers. One was laying in bed flat on his back and plunged a knife right into his chest. Dozens also drank themselves to death. I kept civilian friends but nobody understands a police officer like another police officer. The help is there, just decide to use it.
The only people who will ever care are your peers, and it’s hard to care when watches are revolving doors, especially midnights. I can’t think of a single year where the watch didn’t shift out 10-15 people and bring in replacements. Over the course of 3-5 years almost the whole watch is gone, maybe 10-12 people stayed. It switches so fast I don’t even learn the names of some of the people before they’re gone
This department doesn’t encourage supervisors to check on officers when they’re on medical or when they come back. Nobody wants to intrude on someone’s medical business. And really the blue shirts don’t want the white shirts asking how they are.
Good. Sounds like an entitled brat that doesn’t like authority
Sounds like a quick way to find yourself without a Foid here.
I like that. There is power in words. I’m going to use that. “Today I’m going to win…” Treat every day like a Game. You vs the task at hand. Swinging into the grocery store to get a few things? Pretend it’s a military mission and you’re a covert special Ops agent. The theme music for the 1985 film Commando should be playing in your mind.
Like the scared mouse Sgt JR on 019 1W.
Help is available. Please find it.
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You’re full of shit.
Move it along troll
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Bet your one of those wonderful people who shout obscenities at the families of fallen soldiers at their funeral in "protest" of war.
Just witnessed a sergeant lose it on a bunch of coppers for going into check off when they were told to by another sergeant. At the drop of a hat, any white shirt can pull rank and make coppers feel small and ruin their nights. And it happens much more frequently than reported. But guess what happens when you put in a complaint. Nothing. Bia does literally nothing. Ask me how I know.
Amen!
Imagine saying "seek God it helps", after calling people retards
Idiot
Some good supervisors on this job, but those numbers are shrinking more and more. Most now are ego and power driven and get off on flexing the power of their white shirt and making your work day worse.
BARZ! He’s a narcissistic giant piece of excrement who will fuck over his own mother to get ahead.
If people would just stop with the high school shit it would benefit everyone greatly. I worked in a North Side district where most stayed there for the duration of thier time on. For thirty years these guys would go through spells of not speaking, parking lot after work challenges, chasing each other's wives and sometimes marrying divorced spouses of their coworkers. Now that they're all retired and old they get together once a month for lunch and drinks to talk about the great times they all had. Talk about DYSFUNCTIONAL...
so sad. RIP officer, you will NEVER be forgotten!!
I loved being the Police. But fuck this job. I never worked for an organization that would fuck with its front line employees just because they thought they could. Dont take any shit from the asshole white shirts. There are some good ones but they are far and few between. Eat Schitt meeler
Specialized units are full of treacherous jagoffs that love to fuck with officers out of spite, jealousy, revenge, cover ups or just dirty deeds. And no one stops it because the supervisors are involved all the way the chain.
It's never the bad guys on the streets who give you a bad day, it's the department itself.
People don’t make fun of people that go on medical for legit reasons. Its the medical abuses that people talk shit about, and rightfully so.
Are you commenting about the officer??? Are you drunk? or an A-hole? Or commenting on the wrong post?
it is all but true....out of sight out of mind. many a time a po goes iod or onthe medical coworkers seem to distance themselves from the po. We say were family but only the real close ones stay in touch. in my many years on the job I had only one commander call me at home to see if i was alright on the medical and if i neeeded anything.
I'm from Nashville and I come to SCC to see how you guys are. It really breaks my heart when one of you dies. We need more like you. You provide a great service for your citizens and yet you are so unappreciated. Especially by Democrat criminals. I just hope you seek help for your depression or what ever you are suffering for. Take Care and May God our Creator protect and keep you in his loving arms.
Please go on the medical and call FOP amd a chaplain or chaplain s if you are feeling depressed. Your well being is important.
lol, they are right... sorry, old timer but there is no solution at the bottom of that bottle only more pain and suffering...
Copy and paste email from the supe then two admin messages about being in proper uniform, all while everyone just got their asses kicked all summer with cancelled days off. So much for mental health awareness. Keep inspecting for those uniform infractions. Some people have to drag themselves to work everyday and you are worried about uniforms. Start with the exempts who most don’t wear body cams or vests. Then get to the hair standards of white shirts. Then move to blue shirts. You won’t have any time.
Inspectors were in my district last two days handing out spars for anything they could find. I guess it’s change day for them.
There aren't any wellness officers on this department.
This department doesn't care about you. The Superintendent will send wellness emails and sit back in meetings and listen to the BIA Chief conspire to take your job. This department mask everything with award ceremonies and promotional lists. The ceremonies are about them, not you. The ceremonies make the feel better after jabbing so many officers.
I can't see how half of these bosses live with themselves. They should be embarrassed. I would be too embarrassed to wear a white shirt.
The road to an exempt pension is paved with ruined coppers, unless of course you’re connected.
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