Illinois police chief blames officers’ suicides on ‘weakness’
(MCT) — Three Waukegan, Ill., police officers have killed themselves since May 2011, and Chief Daniel Greathouse says he’s working to stem an “epidemic” in his department.
But three days after the third officer’s funeral, Greathouse emailed his department and said the suicides had nothing to do with the pressures of police work and were related to the victims’ “weakness.”
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