Authorities ruled that the suicide of a D.C. police officer following the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill insurrection was a line-of-duty death, giving the widow access to her husband's full pension. The officer, Jeffery Smith, shot himself in the head while driving to work in his first day back.
In the wake of a riot at the U.S. Capitol, the suicides of two Washington police officers and the slayings of a pair of FBI agents attempting to serve a warrant in Florida, issues about the health and safety of American police officers have been getting some attention.