MORE POLICE OFFICERS DIE BY SUICIDE THAN IN THE LINE OF DUTY - Officer Ben Hittle works as head of security at PNWU medical school, and has decades of experience as a police officer. He dealt with high stress environments as a hostage negotiator with SWAT, and led many crisis decompression meetings with fellow officers. Ben and I discuss the mental health challenges police officers and first responders face. Ben elaborates why he thinks the rates of depression, anxiety, alcoholism, and suicide are so high among police officers. Lastly, Ben offers advice to any police officer suffer on the best method of getting help.
