<story><title>Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide</title><url>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/566040-fourth-police-officer-who-responded-to-jan-6-attack-dies-by-suicide-report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exo-pla-net</author><text>These officers faced BLM hostility on the left, as well as violence against them and accusations of being traitors from the right.&lt;p&gt;The public that they&amp;#x27;re supposed to serve was spitting on them and demonizing them from both sides.&lt;p&gt;Add a pandemic to the mix, and anybody&amp;#x27;s mental health would be flatlining. Suicide among some of them is tragic but not surprising.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know how effective counseling services are, but if they do anything, they should be made available to the Jan 6 officers.&lt;p&gt;If anybody reading this is in a dark spot, the suicide lifeline is 800-273-8255, and it&amp;#x27;s available 24&amp;#x2F;7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjevans</author><text>Some communities have also been disproportionately persecuted by the police for, a very long time.  Maybe it&amp;#x27;s a legacy of slavery and later segregation.  Maybe it&amp;#x27;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.&lt;p&gt;I suspect most of the non-anarchist who feel that way would agree with my take that &amp;quot;defund&amp;quot; might be better expressed as RE-form.&lt;p&gt;Re-form the Police in a de-militarized way.  Structure community interaction so they are helpful, rather than penalizing. (E.G. more like Japanese neighborhood branches.)  Split out social and mental health crisis, maybe with domestic violence response teams that include a mix of branches.  Also, for mental health, make it easier to get interventions earlier, before assault with a deadly weapon leads to regrettable and unavoidably bad sets of outcomes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Fourth police officer who responded to Jan 6 attack dies by suicide</title><url>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/566040-fourth-police-officer-who-responded-to-jan-6-attack-dies-by-suicide-report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exo-pla-net</author><text>These officers faced BLM hostility on the left, as well as violence against them and accusations of being traitors from the right.&lt;p&gt;The public that they&amp;#x27;re supposed to serve was spitting on them and demonizing them from both sides.&lt;p&gt;Add a pandemic to the mix, and anybody&amp;#x27;s mental health would be flatlining. Suicide among some of them is tragic but not surprising.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know how effective counseling services are, but if they do anything, they should be made available to the Jan 6 officers.&lt;p&gt;If anybody reading this is in a dark spot, the suicide lifeline is 800-273-8255, and it&amp;#x27;s available 24&amp;#x2F;7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elygre</author><text>I think I understand what you mean by “accusations of being traitors from the right”.&lt;p&gt;However, I was unaware of “BLM hostility on the left”. Could you share some more information about this?</text></comment>