ABSTRACT
Violanti presents an array of multidetermined information, many the same as suicide or homicide-suicide. One of the major determinants of police suicide is relationship problems. The established incidence of domestic violence among police officers is high, significantly higher than the general population. Police officers appear to be at high risk for homicide-suicide, probably higher than the general population. E. Pam, in her Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) paper, made the same observation on the relation of police homicide-suicide to domestic violence. Homicide and suicide are both acts of violence, lethal violence—other-directed or self-directed, but violence nonetheless. Homicide-suicide is violence, both other- and self-directed. Police homicide-suicide, a subset of police suicide is receiving ever-increasing public and media attention. Domestic violence appears to be heavily implicated in police murder-suicide, a situation that the Lautenberg Amendment seeks to address by permanently barring any officer ever convicted of the misdemeanor of domestic violence from possessing a firearm.
