During my 23 years as a Police Officer from the oldschool you didnt see that but now you do. You see that probably because of social media and more exposures to a bad health can do to you. I think also young officers are more apt to go for psychological help if they need it. Again the oldschool probably not so much. One of the sad things i have seen in my research into ptsd is that when they look up a mortality studies of Police Officers, Police Officers compared to the general population die at a younger age. Some 10 years younger on average than those in the general population. So we are seeing greater numbers of death of cardiovascular disease among younger officers which is kind of surprising and kind of shocking. The thing you should understand about stress is its cumulative as you are continually exposed to trauma day after day and stress day after day eventually is going to wear your system down. Some of our Research Shows for example the body becomes this regulated under chroni
You also further testified here as well that a large, rather large increase in suicide is seen in officers with 1519 years of service. The question becomes there is a population of Police Officers that are going out, particularly those they might age group okay. We are in the twilight of our careers, and much of what youre talking about, much of the research i assume has been validated pretty much on this population, on my population come if you will. If we consider the fact that theres a younger population of young men and women that are coming our Police Departments today, entirely different generation, 21, 22 years of age anecdotally they are much healthier, they grew up in a time when they become more Health Conscious because the parents more Health Conscious. They are less likely to drink, smoke, hang out, do the police club clique club that introduced a lot of these illnesses that we are very much familiar with. But whats really striking is the fact that for many of these young p