I fail to see your point. Just because cops aren’t in the top 5 for occupational suicides the cops who kill themselves are less dead? The stress is less real?
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“The stress is less real?”
I looked real hard at my post and I don’t think I said that. But a lot of people like to jump to conclusions.
I was looking around at various sources and found conflicting and confusing results. I think a lot of stems from the categorization of occupations which can lump various occupations together. So sometimes police can be in security which obviously includes private sector.
There are differences in gender, age. I do know in healthcare that there are significant differences in specialty and something like this probably applies to police. Detective, beat cop, administrator. For police, location, crime rate is probably very important,
I think when you look at suicide risks by occupation it’s probably more revealing to divide up by positions or specialty in each occupation. Otherwise it’s too broad to be meaningful and you’ll reach the wrong conclusions .
When you look at suicide it’s important to identify the outliers for obvious reasons.
So that’s my point. More segmentation of results would lead to more useful results. Try not to fly off the handle next time.