ABSTRACT
All too often, a police officer is an unwilling participant in a forced or assisted suicide — a death pejoratively called “suicide by cop.” A suspect may take deliberate actions to force the police to be part of his or her assisted suicide. The method is convenient for individuals who do not have the courage to take their own lives or want to take others, including police officers, with them. In essence, they seek police response to an incident, act in a threatening manner, endanger lives of officers and bystanders, and force police to use deadly force. These types of incidents are very difficult for police officers to understand and accept.
