USA Today: Article on preventing police suicides quotes Violanti

Release Date: February 9, 2007 This content is archived.

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An article in USA Today on police suicides and what law enforcement agencies are doing to prevent the deaths of their officers quotes John Violanti, professor of social and preventive medicine, who said that [Fallout from suicide] "lasts a long time, and morale goes down the tube. I've seen entire departments go into states of depression." Go to article.

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