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US Cops Often Shoot Themselves, Yet Few Receive Suicide Prevention Help
22 July 2008
Associated Press
MILWAUKEE Wisconsin — Police Sgt. Chuck Cross pointed his department-issue .40-caliber handgun at his temple, finger on the trigger, as he sat drunk against his hallway wall.
"I was about eight pounds of a trigger pull away," he said.
He's unsure why he stopped. Fellow officers, called by his girlfriend, took him to a mental health center. He was charged with disorderly conduct while armed, and was fired.
He says his department had no idea how to handle his... (GunPolicy.org)