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Four current and former L.A. Sheriff’s Department employees died by suicide in a 24-hour span
LA Times ^ | 11/7/23 | Libor Jany & Richard Winton

Posted on 11/11/2023 8:45:05 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal

Warning: This story includes discussion of suicide.

The suicide deaths of four current and former Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department employees over a 24-hour span have prompted a plea from Sheriff Robert Luna urging deputies to check on the well-being of their colleagues and friends.

“We are stunned to learn of these deaths, and it has sent shock waves of emotions throughout the department as we try and cope with the loss of not just one, but four beloved active and retired members of our department family,” Luna said in an emailed statement Tuesday. “During trying times like these it’s important for personnel regardless of rank or position to check on the well-being of other colleagues and friends.”

Luna said he had the “deepest concern for our employees’ well-being,” adding that the department was “urgently exploring avenues to reduce work stress factors to support our employees’ work and personal lives.” He said the department’s Homicide Bureau would investigate the deaths.

There is no indication that that the deaths were related or that foul play was involved, but department sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation said the third and fourth deaths were discovered as word of the earlier deaths were spreading through the agency.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; lacell; lacounty; losangeles; police; sheriffemployees; suicide; waroncops
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1 posted on 11/11/2023 8:45:05 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Was the Sheriff’s department investigating Hillary?


2 posted on 11/11/2023 8:48:25 AM PST by null and void (If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

LA is the new Denmark.


3 posted on 11/11/2023 8:49:27 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Were they all involved in something together? So many coincidences can’t be.


4 posted on 11/11/2023 8:50:13 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Appreciate the warning. I had no idea.


5 posted on 11/11/2023 9:00:02 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Something very wrong there


6 posted on 11/11/2023 9:05:55 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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To: BradyLS

It is a huge department in a far left city where your profession isn’t valued and is even reviled... and the politicians are dead set on undermining everything good the cops do, likely rewarding the corrupt and punishing the good.


7 posted on 11/11/2023 9:07:14 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Covid?


8 posted on 11/11/2023 9:13:45 AM PST by albie
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Warning: This story includes discussion of suicide.

You don't say!

Where is the warning that the warning includes the word "suicide"?

And the warning about that?

9 posted on 11/11/2023 9:16:33 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Suicide?

Look at chronology of incidents, between Early Monday morning and early Tuesday morning.

Were they all found alone and dead?\

Does not pass smell test.

More like Homicide.

10 posted on 11/11/2023 9:17:33 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

So as far as we know,two were retired ex officers...No age is given. So the other two could have been non deputies. But needs to be investigated to see if there is a tie-in with the four. Within 24 hours? Somethins’ cooking.


11 posted on 11/11/2023 9:22:56 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Gene Eric

In re those warnings, I appreciate compassion. But how useless.

It’s in the title.

If for any reason an issue is something you can’t handle, then don’t start reading it. Or, stop once you realize the subject matter.

Everything is an issue for someone. “Warning: this article addresses attempted murder.” “Warning: this article addresses drug abuse.”’ “Warning: this article addresses poverty.” Etc.


12 posted on 11/11/2023 9:26:11 AM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Larry Lucido

The headline uses the word suicide.
They probably have an AI prompt that puts a warning in when certain words are in the title.
LA times...be going bankrupt anyway or sold to Clueless entrepreneur.
Useless paper, suitable wrapping fish or lining bird cages.


13 posted on 11/11/2023 9:27:20 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Getready

Indeed.


14 posted on 11/11/2023 9:28:56 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Texas Fossil

Suicide by zoom?


15 posted on 11/11/2023 9:29:47 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Larry Lucido

I know they put a phone number after some TV episodes to discourage it but I had no idea this was the figure for suicides in the US:

From 2000 to 2020, more than 800,000 people died by suicide in the United States, with males representing 78.7%. In 2022, around 49,500 people died by suicide according to the CDC, which is the highest number ever recorded. Wikipedia.


16 posted on 11/11/2023 9:35:37 AM PST by frank ballenger (“My job is to inform, not to convince.” St. Bernadette Soubirous )
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To: Getready

I suspect murder to prevent talking about someone important crimes.


17 posted on 11/11/2023 9:36:38 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Anyone who has seen some of the commonly available videos of police interactions with citizens, or non-citizens in the case of LA, and you just hang your head and ask yourself how these guys can do this. Unbelievablely vermin who are now supremely entitled and who are certain that if they stick an iPhone in their face they will be able to walk away from their consequences. And you can tell that the police with their body cams have to talk surgery sweet to these inane people. Anyone else would smack these people in the mouth.


18 posted on 11/11/2023 9:41:28 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Getready

Too many coincidences.


19 posted on 11/11/2023 9:48:33 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

NCIS Leroy Jethro Gibbs Rule #39 - There is no such thing as a coincidence.


20 posted on 11/11/2023 11:11:46 AM PST by bgill
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