A new Dallas police program called the “officer wellness initiative” seeks to confront trauma officers experience on the job and improve overall mental health —...
plotted to murder white police officers during a peaceful protest for Black lives. Micah Johnson, who was Black and had not been part of the protest, was killed inside El Centro College by an explosive device delivered by a robot.
Gaye Arbuckle wipes her eyes after singing during during an interfaith memorial service at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas on Tuesday, July 12, 2016, for five law enforcement officers killed last week in an ambush at a Black Lives Matter rally. The victims are depicted Dallas PD officer Michael Krol, DART officer Brent Thompson, Dallas PD officer Lorne Ahrens, Dallas PD officer Michael Smith, and Dallas PD officer Patrick Zamarripa.
“Their systems are working so hard for them on duty, and then the system crashes off duty,” said Twedell, who is also the CEO of F1RST, an organization that provides therapy and wellness resources for first-responders. “That’s just no way to live a life, but we ask these men and women to do it over and over and over again for 20 years.
The department chose 25 employees with strong reputations — many from SWAT and homicide, Ramirez said — to check on officers after they responded to homicides, suicides, crimes involving children and fatality accidents, as well as officers shot at or injured at work.
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