Officers on the Edge

A spate of suicides has U.S. police reviewing how to help cops cope with pressures on -- and off -- the job

Ann Marie Hall sat next to her husband on the green sofa, trying to talk the gun out of his hands. "You know you can't kill yourself," she said. "Think about the boys, and your mother, and your brother and me. How will we feel?"

Michael admitted he wasn't thinking straight. "It's not about anything but you and me," he said. Even as cops' marriages go, theirs was badly bruised. They had fallen in love fast; he proposed five months after they met, on bended knee atop the Empire State Building, and they were married eight years ago. But since then,...

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