During my 23 years as a Police Officer from the oldschool you didnt see that but now you do. You see that probably because of social media and more exposures to a bad health can do to you. I think also young officers are more apt to go for psychological help if they need it. Again the oldschool probably not so much. One of the sad things i have seen in my research into ptsd is that when they look up a mortality studies of Police Officers, Police Officers compared to the general population die at a younger age. Some 10 years younger on average than those in the general population. So we are seeing greater numbers of death of cardiovascular disease among younger officers which is kind of surprising and kind of shocking. The thing you should understand about stress is its cumulative as you are continually exposed to trauma day after day and stress day after day eventually is going to wear your system down. Some of our Research Shows for example the body becomes this regulated under chroni
Robinson, you probably recognize her because shes the former assistant attorney general for the office of Justice Programs both in this administration with president obama and also in the administration with president clinton. And to professor robinsons left is Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, and to those in the district who also recognize him hes been the Police Commissioner for, i want to say, six years and was the District Police chief for eight, almost nine years and has spent time in chicago. The way we will do this today is we will have a series of a panel of experts that will provide testimony to the task force, and that testimony will then be considered by the task force as it goes into deliberations. Let me say this. For the witnesses we have today, one, thank you for being here. For the first time of the task force, were also going to have several witnesses come in through and im going to get myself in trouble because im not a tech person so i apologize ahead of time thro
Rn. She is 38 years old. Her Interest Rate is 8. 5 interest from the government. Why is the Interest Rate so high on these Student Loans . Guest it is not high relative to what they would be paying from a private lender. It is a subsidized rate. There is a new innovation in the student loan market when they with private lenders. Host linda, what is your situation . Caller my husband has Student Loans. There are so many things being said that are not true. We started out with 31,000 in Student Loan Debt after having them since 2000, we are down to 54,000. We have been making a 340 payment for the last four years and only seen our balance go up. We are on the income or tengion payment plan. To say this we are on the income retention payment plan. We are battling with a student loan provider where it says in the contingent plan, it is capped at 10 of the original loan value. They had added an added and keep trying to say that is the way it goes. After 25 years, you say the loan is forgive
Because we know that you have a great relationship, or at least, you know on the distribution better than most. Your mayor brought you here. You have twice monthly meetings with your police chief. But for someone whos starting not from a good a position of, you know relatively good relations, i think maybe there are some more concrete things you can say about how you let it start with the union representative. And if you could give us ideas about a strategy, that would be useful, at least for me to hear. Like getting your membership on board or something. I dont know how you do that. Its a fair question. And we all have our own constituencies. And people sometimes try to overindicator to theirs. For example, if im expecting a public official to be the one to take that leap of faith, what you have to realize is that they answer to their constituency and that theyre going to weigh that very heavily. The chief answers in our city to the city manager who answers to the mayor and all the co
Days. And following 9 11, officers were mandated 12hour shifts every day, all days off canceled. That was because there was a National Security issue and you just couldnt leave. Nobody cared about what it did to your brain, and were seeing that now. But, for Public Safety reasons you couldnt leave. So that has to be considered also. In the regular course of policing, the eighthour shift is enough, and you want to go home after that. And sometimes after seeing what you see, its tough to go home and have dinner with your family. And as dr. Violanti said in discussing what youve done in your workday, you have to relive it. So, were taught to compartmentalize some of the things that we deal with. But being able to open the doors of that compartment and let it out, and let some steam out of the valve before it bursts is really important. But, getting back to your question regarding shift time maximums, i know the pushback from the guys would be on the economic and financial part, you know,