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	Suicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending one's own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act.
		According to stricter definitions of suicide, to be considered suicide, the death must be a central component and intention of the act, not just a certain consequence; hence, suicide bombing is considered a kind of bombing rather than a kind of suicide, and martyrdom usually escapes religious or legal proscription.
		Suicidal patients in mental hospitals may be temporarily bound, placed in padded rooms, or incapacitated with drugs to limit access to means of suicide.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suicide (1706 words)

	Suicide by cop: there's always police stress as a result.
		I use the phrase "suicide by cop" both in a grammatically correct way, which is as a verb, but also colloquially, as a noun.
		For example "John committed suicide by cop" (verb) and "John was a suicide by cop" (noun).
		The decedent is a "perpetrator of suicide by cop."
	www.geocities.com /~halbrown/suicide_by_cop_1.html (3030 words)

	Suicide by cop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Suicide-by-cop is a suicide method in which someone deliberately acts in a threatening way towards a law enforcement officer, with the main goal of provoking a lethal response (e.g., being shot to death).
		The report states that a jury in a police-shooting inquest ruled it a suicide because on the scene, the subject reportedly stated "better get your guns out lads, I'm coming out" and a suicide note was later found.
		Suicide by Cop: Committing Suicide by Provoking Police to Shoot You.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suicide_by_cop (371 words)

	Suicide
		Suicidal individuals often have false beliefs about the lethality of their chosen suicide methods, greatly overestimating the lethality of over the counter painkillers while underestimating the lethality of handguns, for instance.
		Suicide was of central concern for the twentieth century existentialists, who saw the choice to take one's life as impressed upon us by our experience of the absurdity or meaninglessness of the world and of human endeavor.
		Suicide is, according to Sartre, an opportunity to stake out our understanding of our essence as individuals in a godless world For the existentialists, suicide was not a choice shaped mainly by moral considerations but by concerns about the individual as the sole source of meaning in a meaningless universe.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/suicide (8796 words)

	© Knowledge Solutions LLC 1996 - 2002 / Police Officers: Control, Hopelessness, & Suicide by Brent E. Turvey MS
		When a member of a culture commits suicide, it is not unlikely for that culture to collectively ignore the incident for fear of harvesting any blame or responsibility for the incident.
		It is to discuss the topic of police suicide in the context of police culture, and to raise questions about the contemporary attitude of that culture towards its members who take their own life.
		Those who attempt suicide and fail are remanded to the custody and confinement of a mental health facility until they are no longer determined to be a threat to themselves by two staff doctors.
	www.corpus-delicti.com /suicide.html (4833 words)

	Suicide by cop -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Suicide-by-cop is a (The act of killing yourself) suicide method in which someone deliberately acts in a threatening way towards a (Click link for more info and facts about law enforcement officer) law enforcement officer, with the main goal of provoking a lethal response (e.g., being shot to death).
		The actual act has been described in news accounts from 1981, and scientific journals since 1985, although this particular phrase didn't become common until the early (The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s.
		The report states that a jury in a police-shooting inquest ruled it a suicide because on the scene, he reportedly stated "better get your guns out lads, I'm coming out" and a (Click link for more info and facts about suicide note) suicide note was later found.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/su/suicide_by_cop.htm (274 words)

	'Suicide by Cop': Disturbing new trend revealed by USC study of fatal shootings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Past history of suicide attempts, as well as a high incidence of alcohol and drug dependency also tended to be characteristic.
		The evidence gathered by the researchers also indicates that suicide by cop appears to be on the rise.
		Because law enforcement officers continue to encounter the suicide by cop phenomenon, the LASD was eager to participate in this ground-breaking study.
	www.usc.edu /hsc/info/pr/1vol4/434/shootings.html (600 words)

	Suicide by Cop
		A "suicide by cop" study that Yarbrough worked on included researchers from Harvard and USC and profiled a number of officer-involved shootings that occurred in Los Angeles County between 1987-1996.
		In "suicide by cop" situations, this signal may be the arrival of police or any sign of proactive police intervention that might follow an officer's arrival.
		Denotatively, "suicide by cop" means a cop who kills himself; connotatively, it refers to an individual who has himself killed by an officer.
	home.earthlink.net /~comicdet/id15.html (3068 words)

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		Suicide is any form of self-killing, where self-killing is understood as acting in such a way as to bring about one's own death.
		Suicide is the death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result.
		This is a case of suicide because Joe intends to die not to reveal secrets; that is, he views his death as a means to achieve a goal (keeping the secrets), and known means to intended ends are themselves intended.
	www.siue.edu /~evailat/el8.html (1948 words)

	FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,The: Suicide by cop
		Although the term suicide by cop has been discussed in social-science literature,(1) in police training material, and in newspaper accounts of fatal shootings by police, much remains to be learned.
		Other occasions exist in which the suicidal intent of a subject is clearly evident, but due to particularly patient and attentive police work, a shooting does not occur and a death is avoided.
		Most relevant to the concept of suicide by cop is the phenomenon known as victim-precipitated homicide.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2194/is_n8_v67/ai_21094432 (1337 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Suicide [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Suicide seems to be perhaps the ultimate maladaptive trait, other than, perhaps, infanticide of your own children.
		The United Kingdom decriminalized suicide and attempted suicide in the Suicide Act of 1961.
		A suicide is also a drink which consists of various sodas combined together from a soda fountain.
	encyclozine.com /Suicide (6036 words)

	Suicide by Cop - PC-Media Tech Forums
		'Suicide by cop' isn't a term used to describe the acts of mania or rage that follow a bungled criminal act and lead to a criminal's shooting; nor does it refer to the actions of a person too mentally ill to be aware of his actions.
		Although it is now suspected that suicide by cop has been practised for decades, there had been no formal studies of the phenomenon until 1996, when Richard Parent, a Canadian police constable, examined cases of fatal police shootings in British Columbia from 1980 to 1994.
		In other cases he was able to rely on psychological autopsies (the analysis of suicide through interviews with friends and relatives in the hope of discovering why he or she committed suicide).
	forum.pcmech.com /showthread.php?t=6895 (2959 words)

	Encyclopedia: Suicide by cop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787 Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act.
		The report states that a jury in a police-shooting inquest ruled it a suicide because on the scene, he reportedly stated "better get your guns out lads, I'm coming out" and a suicide note was later found.
		Some historians believe that Guiseppe Zangara, the man who attempted to assassination then President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, might have been attempting suicide by police.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Suicide-by-cop (795 words)

	Police Use Of Deadly Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Criminologist Dr. Rick Parent examines the issue of police use of deadly force and the phenomenon of Victim Precipitated Homicide, also known as Suicide by Cop.
		His dissertation, entitled "Aspects of Police Use of Deadly Force in North America: The Phenomenon of Victim Precipitated Homicide" was conducted by the 25 year veteran of the Delta Police Department for a Doctoral degree in Criminology.
		Parent has been qualified in court as an expert in police shootings and in matters related to deadly force.
	www3.bc.sympatico.ca /parent (82 words)

	Suicide by Cop Foiled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The trend, which is also identified by other phrases such as “victim-perpetuated suicide” and “victim perpetuated homicide,” among others is being cited as a causal factor in a rising number of police shooting.
		According to the study, conducted by Michael Conner, Psy D., there were several themes that accompanied the attempts including feelings of worthlessness, a desire to show family members (or other loved ones) how much they hurt, a manner of maintaining control over their own demise without actually having to perform the act themselves.
		Conner’s research also suggested that those individuals who commit suicide by cop have a different viewpoint of the police then the majority of people.
	www.tulsatoday.com /desks/article.php?key=24026 (480 words)

	NAMI \| White House Shooting Reflects National Issue: 'Suicide By Cop'
		It's called "suicide by cop," in which a suicidal individual deliberately seeks to create a dangerous situation so that police are forced to shoot.
		"Suicide by cop" occurs frequently in many cities, but rarely gets the kind of national attention the Pickett case has achieved.
		Ninety percent of all suicides are the result of serious mental illnesses, which are biological brain disorders.
	www.nami.org /pressroom/20010209.html (380 words)

	Suicide By Cop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This course raises officer's and supervisor's awareness, understanding and recognition of the phenomenon commonly referred to as "Suicide by Cop".
		It describes what constitutes a "Suicide by Cop" incident and addresses the belief that these incidents are often no win situations for responding officers.The course assesses the ability of call intake personnel, dispatchers and first responders to recognize a potential "Suicide by Cop" incident.
		During this time, he was involved in the service of hundreds of high risk search warrants and the creation of tactics used in the service of these warrants.
	www.ples.com /suicide-by-cop.htm (284 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / 'Suicide by cop' in Plymouth
		Police say "suicide by cop" is an event far more common than the public knows, even in the leafy South Shore towns where police rarely have to draw their guns.
		In an era when mentally ill people are released to independent lives in the community as soon as they are stabilized on medication, police have become the caregivers of first resort in a variety of psychiatric emergencies, sometimes with tragic consequences.
		Interspersed with suicide attempts -- friends counted at least five that led to hospitalization -- were episodes of rage that led to standoffs with police.
	boston.com /news/local/articles/2003/10/06/suicide_by_cop_in_plymouth (2940 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Controversy over 'execution' pictures
		Eleven photographs taken by an amateur photographer from his window in east Jerusalem have caused outrage in the Arabic media, which allege they show the summary execution of a Palestinian militant.
		Israeli police said the man was a would-be suicide bomber who they were forced to kill to prevent him from detonating a "large explosive device" strapped to his waist.
		The AFP news agency - which published the graphic, but inconclusive images below - said it had received the testimonies of more than 10 eyewitnesses, who said the man was shot half-an-hour after his arrest when he was completely subdued.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1867000/1867726.stm (217 words)

	Suicide By Cop
		Suicide by Cop is an act whereby a person presents a threat to a police officer in order to compel the officer or officers to use deadly force to stop that threat.
		The result is a suicide at the hands of a police officer.
		They planned to kill another person and to use police as a means to escape accountability.
	www.angelfire.com /ga4/suicideawareness/255.html (400 words)

	Possible Motive: Suicide by Cop
		A Spokane teenager who was shot Monday after a brief standoff with police had written a page and a half suicide letter and left it in his bedroom before going to school with a gun.
		Bragdon said he believed Sean Fitzpatrick, 16, intended to commit suicide at Lewis and Clark High School when he barricaded himself in a room at the downtown high school.
		"Suicide by cop," as Bragdon called it, is well known among lawenforcement.
	suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org /possmosuicop.html (287 words)

	Closer Look At 'Suicide By Cop' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to relatively recent studies, "Suicide by Cop" or police-assisted suicide, occurs in 10 to 15 percent of police officer involved shootings.
		This 1983 study revealed that approximately 10 percent of the shootings involved suicide wherein officers were enticed into a self defense action.
		The aftermath associated with a case like this is devastating to the dead person's family, the police officer, and to a lesser extent, tax payers.
	www.journal-topics.com /columns/giovanelli010912.html (301 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Danger of 'suicide by cop'
		Out of 24 cases of people being shot by armed police, 11 were trying to commit "suicide by cop", the report said.
		As well as the 11 individuals with aiming to commit suicide, another two had "marked mental health problems" and another five were drunk or on drugs.
		PCA chairman Sir Alistair Graham said the report was encouraging and the use of firearms still relatively small.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/2708251.stm (489 words)

	Gary G. Smith - Home
		COPS was responsible for brining the COPS kids to the FBI National Academy while I was there earlier this year.
		Every year "COPS Kids" travel to the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia in May while they are attending the law enforcement memorial activities in D.C. They are children who have recently lost a law enforcement parent who was killed in the line of duty.
		The paper states that it appears the man wanted to commit suicide, often known as "suicide by cop." To read the article about the incident, click here.
	garygsmith.net /2004_08_01_archive.html (8685 words)

	Attempted suicide by cop: a case study of traumatic brain injury and the insanity defense. Bresler S, Scalora MJ, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Attempted suicide by cop: a case study of traumatic brain injury and the insanity defense.
		In this paper, we present a case study of an individual who engaged in and lived through three separate “attempted suicide by cop” incidents.
		After describing relevant history as well as events of the most recent incident, we compare the case with the extant literature on suicide by cop and analyze commonalities and differences.
	www.astm.org /jforensicsci/PAGES/4100.htm (223 words)

	WJLA - Police Probe Marine's 'Suicide by Cop' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A young Marine whose family said he feared returning to Iraq was killed by police after he shot and killed an officer and wounded another, and authorities said they are investigating the case as a "suicide by cop."
		The Marine, 19-year-old Andres Raya, was killed Sunday after he initiated a second gunfight with police as they pursued him for the earlier shooting, authorities said.
		"By the statements the suspect made at the scene, it was clear he wanted to die and take as many cops down as he could in the process," Lt. Bill Heyne, lead investigator for the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/0105/200405.html (335 words)

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		If you are a Law Enforcement Administrator, please review your departmental policy regarding support resources for officer-involved shootings.
		Learn more by reading "Suicide By Cop: Victims from Both Sides of the Badge." Click HERE to order.
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	www.suicidebycop.com (307 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Swordsman wanted to die, inquest told
		Police call centres blamed for 48-hour delays in responding
		An inquest heard yesterday how a suicidal man wanted to "go out in a blaze of glory" and confronted police marksmen with a gun and a samurai sword before they shot him.
		Officers did not know that the gun pointed at them by Jason Gifford, 27, as he emerged from his former marital home only fired rubber bullets, a coroner heard.
	www.guardian.co.uk /crime/article/0,2763,1116828,00.html (325 words)

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