Suicide by cop

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Suicide by cop (dt. About, suicide by cop ') refers to a method of suicide with the aim of one's life by lethal shots usually a police officer to stop (or by other armed persons).

Course, consequences

A suicidal person tries to carry out his / her intention by creating a situation in which a police officer believes himself to be in a self-defense or emergency situation ( permission error ) and uses his firearm , which kills the suicide . Similar to the train drivers involved in rail suicide, police officers are "used" by the suicide for their project and as a result often suffer from post-traumatic symptoms .

Occurrence

While this type of suicide is rarely reported in Germany, there have been media reports on suicide by cop in the United States since the 1980s . Since then, the term has prevailed over other possible terms such as suicide by police or death by cop . A 2004 investigation by an employee of the Delta Police Department found that almost a third of the 843 cases investigated were based on the motive of suicide by cop . There have been multiple live broadcasts of real-life events in the United States.

The idea of ​​this type of suicide goes back to the time of the Roman Empire .

Suicide by cop in the movie

Suicide by cop is part of the plot of various, mostly American films, for example in the thriller The Mission , in which Al Pacino points his pistol without ammunition at several police officers in a hopeless situation in order to avoid arrest, and then shot as desired , or in Falling Down , New Police Story or Out of Breath . In the episode The Sad King of the Tatort television series , Commissioner Franz Leitmayr shoots a perpetrator who wanted to end his life.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rebecca A. Stincelli: Suicide by cop: victims from bothsides of the badge. Interviews & Interrogations Institute, Folsom 2004
  2. ↑ The word guide to new words: Suicide by cop
  3. ^ Richard Parent: Aspects of Police Use of Deadly Force In North America - The Phenomenon of Victim-Precipitated Homicide. PhD Thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2004 online , abstract, page iv. Retrieved January 7, 2015
  4. ↑ Attempted Suicide by Cop: A Case Study of Traumatic Brain Injury and the Insanity Defense ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hawaii.edu
  5. ^ Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire. Volume 2, Chapter 21. New York 1993