Three NYPD officers commit suicide in 10 days

By Zach Halaschak

Published June 15, 2019 2:16pm ET

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Three NYPD officers commit suicide in 10 days — A member of the police honor guard has his badge covered in mourning as he arrives for the funeral mass for New York City police officer Brian Moore, Friday, May 8, 2015, at the St. James Roman Catholic church in Seaford, N.Y. As many as 30,000 police officers from across the United States are expected to pay their respects at the Long Island funeral for the young police officer slain on patrol. | (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Three New York City Police Department officers committed suicide in a little over a week, prompting Police Commissioner James O’Neill to declare a “mental health crisis.”

On Friday NYPD officer Mike Caddy, 29, was found in uniform dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his car behind one of the city’s police precincts.

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