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Law enforcement officers live in their community’s crises. Their existence while at work necessitates resolving the highs and lows of other people’s lives, then resuming what most would consider n...
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On December 19, 2018, Hillsborough County, Florida, Deputy Sheriff Terry Shawn called into dispatch and said that he had harmed his family. Deputy Shawn told the dispatcher that financial and health p...
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Generally speaking, police officers are reluctant help seekers; like many people who work in the helping professions, officers are used to being the helpers—not being in the position of looking to s...
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If one topic exists that law enforcement leaders can all agree on, policing today has evolved significantly during the last two decades. Not only have crime and technology changed, but so have social ...
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Justin Terney, a 22-year-old police officer who had served at the Tecumseh, Oklahoma, Police Department for merely six months, died on March 27, 2017, after a shootout with a man trying to flee...
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Not every critical incident involves a person with a weapon or mass casualties; often enough, a crisis involves only one person or a few people and centers around a person affected by mental health is...
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Police and sheriff personnel routinely face highly stressful work days with regular exposure to traumatic events. These direct and ongoing threats to their overall health trigger negative behavioral,...
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Over the last decade, there has been a growing issue for law enforcement—an increase in the number of contacts between individuals experiencing a mental health crisis and police officers with insuff...
