A law enforcement think tank wants police departments dealing with a suicide crisis in their ranks to rethink how they make one of their toughest decisions: when to take guns away from troubled officers. Also last week, an officer in Maryland killed himself with a gun. “There are risks in taking the guns and risks in not taking them,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the think tank. Typically, when such a decision is made, officials are supposed to take away all guns the officer owns, not only the service weapon. “My threshold for recommending gun removal is very high,” said a Los Angeles Police Department psychologist quoted in the report, Denise Jablonski-Kaye.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 24, 2019 20:03 UTC