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For the Chicago Police Department, 2018 had been a rough year that couldn’t end fast enough. Cmdr. Paul Bauer was shot to death in February as he pursued a suspect in the Loop. Officer Samuel Jimenez died in a November hospital shooting. There had been a number of suicide...

By STATESIDE STAFF• APR 9, 2019

In the past two years, the Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson has lost four correctional officers to suicide. Earlier this month, his family and co-workers honored Michael Perdue, a long-time CO at Cotton, who died by suicide this year. 

Corrections officers across the state are hoping these tragic losses will bring attention to the pressures of working in pr...

IN EMOTIONAL VIDEO, CPD BRASS SHARE STORIES OF STRUGGLE IN HOPES OF HELPING OTHER COPS

POSTED 3:58 PM, APRIL 3, 2019, BY BEN BRADLEY

CHICAGO — A spike in suicides among Chicago police officers has members of the department sharing stories of their own struggles.

Four Chicago officers committed suicide last year and there have already been three this year. CPD’s rate of suicide is more than doub...