{"id":3118,"date":"2023-01-02T02:49:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T08:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2023-03-14T02:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T07:15:35","slug":"3-chicago-police-officers-died-by-suicide-in-one-week-total-of-7-in-2022-experts-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3118","title":{"rendered":"<strong>3 Chicago police officers died by suicide in one week, total of 7 in 2022: Experts react<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline at\u00a0988 or 1-800-273-TALK\u00a0(8255).<br \/>\nThree\u00a0Chicago police officers\u00a0died by suicide in the final weeks of 2022, adding to a troubling trend over the past few years which several experts told Fox News Digital must be more seriously addressed in 2023.<br \/>\nA 51-year-old off-duty Chicago police officer took his own life on the morning of Dec. 22, marking the seventh police officer suicide of 2022 and the third since Dec. 15,\u00a0WLS-TV reported.<br \/>\nOn the morning of Dec. 20, a female Chicago police officer in her 30s was found dead in her home from suicide, and a 58-year-old female officer was found dead of an apparent suicide on Dec. 15.<br \/>\nDEFUNDING POLICE, VILIFYING THEM &#8216;AT EVERY TURN&#8217; CONTRIBUTING TO OFFICER SUICIDES, EXPERTS SAY.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/3-chicago-police-officers-died-suicide-one-week-total-7-in-2022-experts-react\">Foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline at\u00a0988 or 1-800-273-TALK\u00a0(8255). Three\u00a0Chicago police officers\u00a0died by suicide in the final weeks of 2022, adding to a troubling trend over the past few years which several experts told Fox News Digital must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1555,3217,1257,1237,1193],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-chicago","tag-eugene-roy","tag-experts","tag-police","tag-roy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7407,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/7407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}