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Support for Homeland Heroes

Did you know that around 38% of Fire Rescue personnel and 32% of Emergency Dispatchers suffer from symptoms of PTSD? Or that every 17 hours a law enforcement officer takes his or her own life? The suicide rate among correctional …


How Police and Detectives Deal with Stress and Trauma

In a Business Insider profile of the NYPD’s Special Victims Division, Christopher Dickey describes detectives that work extremely long hours, who resort to sleeping on cots at the station and who deal with hundreds of horrific or disturbing sex crime …