CHICAGO (WLS) -- Suicide among police officers has been prevalent in the Chicago Police Department in recent weeks. According to the department, two of their officers have recently died by suicide ...

Further, suicide rates for Black men in Chicago increased from 7.7 per 100,000 in 2015 to 14.1 in 2021. Results from our study also indicate that 55% of Black men who died by suicide in Chicago ...

The apparent suicide of a third Chicago cop within a week needs to be a wake-up call for a department that has been long criticized over how it takes care of its officers, a psychologist who ...

Chicago Police Department addresses three recent officer suicides 02:15. CHICAGO (CBS) --After two Chicago police officers and a sergeant have died from suicide this month alone, Police Supt ...

Founders of 'A Badge of Honor' talk to Chicago officers about trauma, suicide prevention 02:55. CHICAGO (CBS) -- More than 125 police officers nationwide have died by suicide this year – and ...

Chris Buckner, whose son Dylan Buckner committed suicide in January, told "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday that the stress caused by Chicago‘s coronavirus restrictions, including school closures and ...

Incensed by canceled days off, slow benefits for families of fallen officers and a spate of recent officer suicides, a group of aldermen introduced a package of legislation at Wednesday’s Cit… ...

But even before then, a U.S. Justice Department report in 2017 found the suicide rate of Chicago cops was 60% higher than the national average for law enforcement officials.. Between 2016 and 2023 ...

Uptick in suicides . The Chicago Department of Public Health is training city workers and residents who live in neighborhoods with the highest suicide rates on how to spot the signs of suicide ...