title: Trends in police suicide.
abstract: Little empirical information is available concerning trends of suicide by police officers. Anecdotes and articles in the popular press imply that the rate is increasing but do not provide a scientific base. Data from an epidemiological mortality database are used to describe trends in police suicide in a medium-sized police department over a 40-yr. period.
authors.affiliation: Department of Criminal Justice, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York 14623, USA.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Violanti
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009518:New York / Q000453:epidemiology; D016495:Police / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013405:Suicide / Q000639:trends*