Behind the Badge
Support available to help with stress stemming from anti-police sentiment
0According to statistics reported to the FBI, 89 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2019, with 48 occurring as the result of criminal acts. In 2018, 55 peace officers died in the line of duty as a result of criminal incidents, FBI data revealed. If those statistics don’t create enough stress for spouses and family members of officers, new anti-police sentiment, exasperated in part by the media, appears to be at an all-time high in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. “The whole environment for law…
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