Posted on 01/29/2018 9:45:59 AM PST by PROCON
A record 245 people tried to jump off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge in 2017, but fewer succeeded, thanks to the city’s men and women in blue.
The number of successful police interventions with potential bridge-jumpers jumped from 184 in 2016 to 245 in 2017, while the number of confirmed suicides fell from 39 to 33 over the same period, according to a bridge authority report cited by The Marin Independent Journal.
Five new police officers were added to the bridge’s security detail in 2017, bringing the number of officers available to thwart suicide attempts to 36.
In May of last year, construction began on a $211 million project to build a suicide deterrent system. According to an April 13, 2017 press release on the bridge’s website:
“In May, contractors will begin installing temporary fencing along the Bridge approaches and around the tower legs. They will create detailed measurements so they can begin manufacturing the stainless steel net. In mid-2018, they will begin installation of the suicide deterrent. Similar deterrent systems have been used in various locations around the world, but never in this scale. The deterrent at the Golden Gate Bridge will span 1.7 miles of roadway on each side. It will be located 20 feet down from the sidewalk and extend 20 feet out, over the water. The suicide barrier will be built over four years, with an expected completion date in 2021.”
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>>>Sure, save the jumpers so they can continue to vote RAT<<<
Dead RATS Vote the same as live RATS and they always show up.
Darned cops! If a snowflake wants to float down from the bridge to the water below, why not?
You've addressed perhaps a nugget that roughly pertains to Darwinism. I was referencing, when I said I don't believe in it, the essence of Darwinism, which is the origin and sustaining of new species.
My attempt at rather macabre humor regarding those who exit this life via a flying tumble off the Golden Gate Bridge was to address that their genetic make-ups will from that time forward be irrelevant to the genetic make-up of the species.
Well, they share a great deal with their relatives.
I forgot about the sudden deceleration also causing internal bleeding, contributing to the not-quick-by-any-means death.
Past tense.
Of COURSE Trump had EVERYTHING to do with them wanting to kill themselves!
I mean...don’t you know he’s a racist, and a Nazi, and homophobic, and a big ol’ meanie who steals candy from children and trips little old ladies? Don’t you realize he disrupts the good energy from all the liberal minds and their flowery, peaceful thoughts?
Don’t you realize that the only way the world could have possibly been saved from evil is electing The Greatest Woman Who Ever Lived?
My goodness...no wonder that people are driven to suicide! The USofA is being led by EVIL...pure EVIL!!!!!!
(Just so there’s no doubt...the above was soaked in Grade-A SARCASM.)
“Yet another case of corrupt police acting counter to the best interests of society.”
ROFL!!!
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