Thursday, December 13, 2007

No surprise

While I was at it, a also looked at the manner of the suicides over the past few years. I don't think there's any surprise here, although I can't remember quite this many carbon monoxide poisoning cases.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are any of the gun suicides on that pie chart "suicide by cop", or are those classed as justifiable homicides?

Tom Casady said...

No, we haven't had a fatal shooting by a Lincoln police officer since 1992. There have been scores of very close calls, though.

Were such a case to occur, a "suicide by cop" would not be classified as suicide, rather as justifiable homicide.