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Brad Schimel: “We lose four times as many [law enforcement officers] to…”

Featuring: Brad Schimel, Republican | Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge, Waukesha County

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Brad Schimel interviewed by Ben Dryden

Published | Video Starts at 03:31

And I mean, and I saw personally from all my years in the DA's office in Waukesha, lost some good friends in law enforcement to suicide, too. And you know, we lose. We lose four times as many [law enforcement officers] to suicide as we do duty deaths. And we owe it to them to do things, to work on wellness, to. To keep them not just physically safe on the job, but mentally emotionally safe too. (03:31–03:36)

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Asserts that law enforcement officer suicides outnumber duty deaths by a factor of four.

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