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[mat]

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[5GallonBucket]

14 hours ago, mat said:

Suspicious 

To say the least

[tvc184]

21 hours ago, mat said:

Suspicious 

Not really. 

[5GallonBucket]

3 hours ago, tvc184 said:

Not really. 

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just coincidence….not saying it’s not possible but

[bullets13]

1 hour ago, 5GallonBucket said:

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just coincidence….not saying it’s not possible but

A couple hundred officers commit suicide a year. The job is getting worse and those numbers are going up. HCSO has 4200 employees. I’d be a lot more suspicious if they had 400 employees. 

[5GallonBucket]

52 minutes ago, bullets13 said:

A couple hundred officers commit suicide a year. The job is getting worse and those numbers are going up. HCSO has 4200 employees. I’d be a lot more suspicious if they had 400 employees. 

“Couple hundred” in Harris county?

I get the factors but all within a few weeks still raises an eyebrow for me at least.

[bullets13]

1 hour ago, 5GallonBucket said:

“Couple hundred” in Harris county?

I get the factors but all within a few weeks still raises an eyebrow for me at least.

couple hundred across the nation. but Harris county is one of the biggest agencies in the country. While 4 is abnormally high, it's far from unbelievable, especially with the consideration of copycat suicides, which is fairly common. Awhile back a friend on facebook posted a picture of some guys that graduated a couple of years ahead of me at HJ.  10-12 years ago all three shot themselves within a couple of years of each other. In 2024 Harris County lost 4 officers in the line of duty. In 2022 they lost 5 in the line of duty. I guess 4 to suicide doesn't seem that farfetched. 

[SmashMouth]

Interesting Statistic

Professions with the highest suicide rates (2023-2024 numbers):

1. Medical Doctors
2. Dentists
3. Police Officers
4. Veterinarians

[tvc184]

On 3/31/2025 at 11:54 AM, 5GallonBucket said:

“Couple hundred” in Harris county?

I get the factors but all within a few weeks still raises an eyebrow for me at least.

Certainly we have no clue.

Going by social media, including local and national, there seems to be about an 80%-90% of the people saying there has to be something up with this. Their outright statements are that they were all involved in something crooked, etc.

Obviously, anything is a possibility since we have no clue. There is a very good possibility that these deputies did not even know each other. A couple were retired.

I have a hard time remembering, but I believe that I have known six police officers who have killed themselves. Two were coworkers. This is not a huge area compared to the greater Houston area.

Some causation of the fairly short time frame possibly had to do with the mentality that if a couple of others did it, it must be somehow acceptable.

There was a case, maybe 15 or 20 years ago where several teenagers in a community had committed suicide. I don’t think there was any connection. When some teens are struggling and not knowing what to do and a couple of others in the same community take their own lives, I believe that it somehow gives them justification in their own mind as a reasonable solution. Like, well Mary and Robert did it so…..

Policing is a profession which already has a fairly high statistic of suicides. To see so many personally (no telling how many I have seen) and seeing death every week and then topping it off with other officers from the same agency, I think it might make the decision easier.

Maybe someone with mental health, professional experience can chime in.

But who knows if they were related. My suspicion is that they were not.