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PTSD in Law Enforcement

I’m doing some research on PTSD, specifically in Law Enforcement. If you, or someone you know can recommend websites, books, etc., that addresses PTSD, please let me know. I’ve found a few on the internet but I was hoping someone with first hand experience can recommend a few.

Trufant

Travis is finished and sitting with an editor at the moment. But I’ve already made an outline for the sequel, Trufant. Here’s the opening Chapter. He walked towards the car picking his way through the minefield of tiny blue-green fragments of broken glass that had once been the driver’s window. He had been told the…
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September 11, 2001

September 11th 2001 It was a typical Tuesday morning for me. As we did most every day in Homicide, we met in the Lieutenants office and drank coffee while we discussed our current cases. The Lieutenant or sometimes one of our secretaries would make a pot of Cuban Coffee and pass it around to everyone…
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Respect

Respect I came across this photo on the wall of our Post Office as Susan and I picked up a package yesterday. This photo of a picture on a wall lacks the power that the actual photo possesses—or at least the power I felt when I stood in front of it. I wish I had…
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Air Conditioning

  As I was lying in an Ambien induced haze last night, I couldn’t help but wonder how is that when your air conditioner fails its always during the summer and on a weekend—or worse, on Thanksgiving in South Florida when its ninety–nine degrees. It happened to me so I know. Is it something in…
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