[Orosius]

Police officers (and priests) deal with people at their worst day in and day out. No surprise it’s demoralizing. The wonder is not that some commit suicide or quit, but that more don’t.

The same goes for dentists, oddly enough.

[Myrddin]

My wife was a police/fire/EMS dispatcher from 1996 to the end of 2023. The time from January 2021 to Dec 2023 was served in our local, small city. As a dispatcher, you see all of the traffic going to/from the officers in the field. The names, locations and offenses. Some names and offenses recur on a regular basis. Overlaid on that was the geographic nature of LDS/Mormon "wards" and "stakes". It wasn't long before the names of regular offenders were permanently committed to memory. We really attempted to attend meetings at church when we arrived in town. It wasn't long before my wife realized that many of the people sitting around her were part of the regular offenders she encountered at work. She honestly knew more than the bishop about many of those people. Suffice to say, it was just too uncomfortable to continue attending. There were some suicides over the past 25 years. My wife tried to avoid any more interaction or mention of those incidents.