A spokeswoman for the National Police Association asks us not to politicize the suicide deaths of four Capitol Police officers in the seven months since Jan. 6. The Daily Mail (U.K.) has the story, in which she makes some good points.
On the other hand, an old aphorism that Ian Fleming included in the Bond novel Goldfinger goes something like "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." I guess that would make four times something worse than enemy action, maybe moral rot from within?
Or perhaps it is the belated realization that being a Cap Cop is like being an airline pilot: months or years of boring routine interrupted by moments of heart-stopping terror.
Afterthought: The spokeswoman needs a recent publicity still. Nobody looks that good after 29 years on the Chicago PD.
