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Suicide In The Police Subculture

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After reading your essay I was really impressed by the way that you presented your ideas and also the great way that you developed the main points of your essay. Police suicide is a topic that is very sensitive in the law enforcement community. “The real number of police officers who committed suicide is not well known because the department many times presented them as accidents to protect the reputation of the department” (Burns 2013). Police officers are expect to be strong and tough and demonstrating weakness for many of them is a sing of vulnerability that can damage their image in front of others as reliable . This belief is well structure in the police subculture. Police organizations try their best to maintain their appearance in

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