@article{ref1,
title="Suicide among New York City police officers, 1977-1996",
journal="American journal of psychiatry",
year="2002",
author="Marzuk, Peter M. and Nock, Matthew K. and Leon, Andrew C. and Portera, Laura and Tardiff, Kenneth",
volume="159",
number="12",
pages="2069-2071",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The authors assessed the suicide rates of New York City police officers during a recent period. METHOD: The authors reviewed death certificates of active New York City police officers who died from 1977 through 1996 (N=668); age-, gender-, and race-specific suicide rates among New York City police officers and the city's residents were determined. RESULTS: The police suicide rate was 14.9 per 100,000 person-years, compared with a demographically adjusted suicide rate of New York City residents of 18.3 per 100,000 person-years. Suicide rates among male police officers were comparable to their reference population. Female police officers had a higher risk of suicide than female residents of New York, but the number of suicides of female police officers was small. CONCLUSIONS: The rate of suicide among New York City police officers is equal to, or even lower than, the suicide rate of the city's resident population.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-953X",
doi="10.1176/appi.ajp.159.12.2069",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.159.12.2069"
}