NYPD: On-Duty Officer Commits Suicide In Queens

January 20, 2012 7:32 AM

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The NYPD says a police officer committed suicide while on duty Thursday night by shooting himself while responding to a call in Queens.

The 28-year-old officer, whose name has been withheld, was found lying on 211th Street in Hollis Hills. He was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after 11 p.m.

According to reports, investigators say the officer had been arguing with his girlfriend on the phone before he shot himself.

Authorities say the officer had responded with his partner to a call about a series of car break-ins in the area.

Fred Derf

and people who are this emotionally unstable are allowed to be police?

artemis133

You dope. How do you know anyone who chooses the career of law enforcement will react to the regular exposure to horrible, unbelievable violence and cruelty that humans tend to have toward other humans? Think about it. Rub two brain cells together, if you have that many.

Charlie

They called Officer of the year Terrance Yeakey’s mysterious death a suicide too, with no autopsy. Most shocking story I’ve ever heard probably.

revolt!

true that charlie…where was and is peoples concern over him? Killed so our ‘govt’ could cover up its crimes only to go unpunished !

CPD Officer

First, RIP to this young officer. Wish he reached out to someone.

Second, the sheep have voices. Very nice. WROL1776, what POG ass unit were you in? Most cops support 2nd Amendment rights, you moron. Second, yes, I use my cell phone on duty to contact victim’s, make notifications, request certain units, etc. When it is slow, I even make personal calls on it…wow! How absurd. I work in one of the worst areas of Chicago and the police are hated. We are the only people who race/run towards gunfire, b.s. domestics, sexual assaults, man with a gun calls, etc. and we are hated for it. Funny, when the bangers lie dying on the ground they always beg to be saved. Funny how the people on this site have more sympathy for them than the ‘dumb ass cops’ that would race to save them or any member of their family. If you are that dishonest and ungrateful as to pretend like you have never called the police, or would not call, when in danger or trouble than thank you, because you prove how little men can be. The very thought reaffirms my knowing that you are a scared little sheep, even with a gun you couldn’t protect yourself – but someone in fatigues will fight for you overseas and someone in blue will fight for you at home, enjoy your freedom and security.

RIP officer, your in MY prayers.

Benoit is a sucker

For a broken back and six screws in my spine My police pension is $8700 a month tax free for the rest of my life. Thank you mr savage who hit me with a bat and Thank you mr.benoit for your tax donation to help me travel the world !!!

James Benoit

If we’re all lucky you’ll fall off the ship and drown in the Atlantic. Be sure to carry a heavy object around with you on deck – like say – your wife. {boyfriend, whatever}

cpd Officer

From what part of my comment did you infer my claim that he was shot in the line of duty and did not kill himself? I believe I quite clearly stated that I “wish[ed] he reached out to someone.”

Wrong also on me saying anyone’s profession was “less valuable to society.” Freudian slip perhaps?

Again, empty claims of abuse, please elaborate. How do NYPD cops abuse their own pension, lol? Really, I don’t know anything about it. The way pensions work is each member pays into their own pension and the city, through legislative agreements, have some sort of predetermined matching scheme. I guess they should just donate money to NY and not get any money back? That sounds fair.

While I see you are hostile and argumentative, I think it is misplaced. Every day I am out I do my best to protect the innocent and, yes, I do think that is admirable. Call me a rotten person, but I actually feel bad for anyone who takes their own life, wether they wear a uniform or not. You can’t find it in your heart to say the same, which actually says a lot about the type of people exist. Unless your in Chicago raping, dealing, shooting or up to some other sort of malcontent, I doubt I’ll see you in court. However, if I do, thanks, I’ll get court time.

James Benoit

You self righteous puke. It’s COMMON KNOWLEDGE that in the year or so BEFORE these NYPD cops retire they RAMP UP their hours and juice up their salaries because they RETIRE AT THE PAY earned their last calender year. A 50 or $60K gig goes to $100K – thus SOAKING the TAXPAYER.

Your whole “Woe is me I’m a cop” diatribe is CRAP. If it’s SO TOUGH, F-ING QUIT. Take that associates degree and get a gig SACKING GROCERIES.

Power Forward #54

James – If this guy gets a job sacking groceries he might put you out of work. You are a typical underachiever who goes on the attack when someone has it better then you. Work harder and achieve and what other people make won’t bother you so much.
cpd officer

LOL, so they “ramp up,” another phrase for “work for with overtime” and “juice up” by working more years. So work for more is okay in other professions but not police? I guess me paying for my own B.A. in International Studies and Arabic in 2.5 years with a GPA of 3.5 while working part time could only get me bagging groceries? I guess I didn’t earn the GIB I served five years for either, which payed for a fraction of my tuition?

I love my job, I just think insignificant little men like you are funny. Instead of being civil and wishing his family well, you hurl insults. Have a good night James.

James Benoit

Even the pavement apes in Chicago are due representation. It’s the law. Have a nice day “occifer.”
Joel

What you are encountering is the moral decay of society that began in the 60s when I was drafted. The crowd that was spitting on GIs, calling cops pigs, if it feels good do it and shouting don’t trust anyone over 30 are in academia and politics.

Two generations now of kids raised with an entitlement mentality and disrespect for authority has gotten us to the point where you are not appreciated for what you do, but are also in a position where policeofficers become distrustful of the populace.

Having friends on the Tacoma PD, we’ve discussed this and its really a sad outcome. Not sure how this can be turned around.

RIP

Blade Runner 1776

I as a fellow law enforcement officer, it saddens me when someone commits suicide. I was also in the military and some fellow military service men also committed suicides. A person goes thru a lot before ending their lives. Whether the person is a civilian police, military, people are people. We are all human beings. That police officer had loved ones and i pretty sure his relatives are hurting. Please, let’s us have respect for our fellow man. RIP.

John Galt

Some of us seem a little less than human, than others, such as the people using this tragedy to politicize and push their viewpoints. Thank both of you for your service to our cities and our country. God bless you and God bless this man’s family.

Disgusted

Benoit,
I hope when you get mugged, carjacked, or held up with a gun to your head,
any cop in the area, spits on the ground and keeps walking.

You are an ungrateful SOB. I can’t imagine who or what raised you.

Diamondback

Take you own advice and do the world a favor.
Pat

You are an idiot…. hope u need a cop someday and they leave your sorry ass to fend for yourself. Loser..

Diamondback

I’m 58 and I’ve never needed a cop in my life for anything!

I provide my own protection because ,as they all proved during the massacre at the HS in Denver a few years back, they’re mostly all cowards! They all hid behind their cars or brick walls and waited for management and SWAT to arrive as you could hear the sounds of gunshots and screams coming from within the school.

Disgusting!

wrol1776

change your monicker to Jefferson though; Abe was the first culprit to declare martial law.

spartan1992

No Abe wasn’t, Washington did during the Whiskey Rebellion.

rowper

Maybe it can become a fashion statement of stress and toil ‘under fire.’
wrol1776

exactly. guilt over the violation of the Constitutional rights of the people and the tyranny they are exacting on the American people as punk slaves to the banksters.

Steve

WROL1776–why don’t you blow YOUR brains out–the world is always better with one less mindless moron roaming the streets. I would suspect that not ONE person would miss your sorry ass and the rest of us could applaud your demise as you have this police officer who you know nothing about. F***** LOSER!

wrol1776

waaaa waaaa stevie.

Diamondback

Sounds like stevie is one of the traitorous, pos!

Mark Matis

Suck that pig, bro! I hear the coffee and donuts taste MUCH better when filtered like that!
CJ Turner

Angry Steve knows enough about someone from one post to wish death upon them.

Mark Matis

Well said!

Respect

The ignorance of most posters here is mindboggling. No respect for those who serve to protect. Think you could live without those young men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting yours? Go to Afghanistan or better yet, Somalia or Mogodishu. You’ll be crying in your pillow for the protection of those
who serve to protect, whether the police of the military.

Pro Drinker

The Mexico border is way worse than Afghanistan. That’s what I just read on the internet. It must be true. My mind only boggles when I don’t get my required amount of alcohol/hour.
Diamondback

1. Respect must be earned and LE in this country is totally out-of-control. When they start honoring their oaths to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution, maybe they’ll start earning our respect beck.

2. The courts, including the SCOTUS, have ruled repeatedly that police officers HAVE NO DUTY to protect citizens except in a general law-enforcement overall community kind of way. If a cop sees you being beaten severely in an alley, they have no legal duty to assist. When seconds matter the police are only minutes away. Keep relying on LE and you’ll end up dead or seriously injured.

Just sayin’

cpd Officer

D-back…you are clearly a man of both pen and sword! You are quite the scholar. Now, would you be so kind as to include the SCOTUS ruling you are citing? Maybe as an officer I’ve been doing the wrong thing by doing what I thought was my job. You mean I don’t have to respond to BATIP calls? Awesome! What your probably confusing is off-duty responsibilities, in which case an officer must, at the very least, report an offense. Officers often do not get involved off duty because they are typically not legally covered by corporation counsel, definitely not if they are outside of their municipality. I know an officer who stepped in during an AGG sex assault in progress, lost an eye fighting the offender and is now being sued by said offender for shooting him. Only if we had more men of your stock! I bet you keep crime in your area at -10%.

WW3

back in my day on the pd we had a saying – better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6. fortunately for me, i got to go home every morning with a minimum of injuries over my career. oh, one more – dead men can’t testify or sue.
inSANEmom

he District of Columbia’s highest court spelled out plainly the “fundamental principle that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen.” ~ Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1, 4 (D.C. 1981)

In the especially gruesome landmark case the “no-duty” rule got ugly. Just before dawn on March 16, 1975, two men broke down the back door of a three-story home in Washington, D.C., shared by three women and a child. On the second floor one woman was sexually attacked. Her housemates on the third floor heard her screams and called the police.

The women’s first call to D.C. police got assigned a low priority, so the responding officers arrived at the house, got no answer to their knocks on the door, did a quick check around, and left. When the women frantically called the police a second time, the dispatcher promised help would come—but no officers were even dispatched.

The attackers kidnapped, robbed, raped, and beat all three women over 14 hours. When these women later sued the city and its police for negligently failing to protect them or even to answer their second call, the court held that government had no duty to respond to their call or to protect them. Case dismissed.

The law is similar in most states. A Kansas statute precludes citizens from suing the government or the police for negligently failing to enforce the law or for failing to provide police or fire protection. A California law states that “neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for failure to establish a police department or otherwise provide police protection service.” As one California appellate court wrote, “police officers have no affirmative statutory duty to do anything.”

CJ Turner

Nice, thanks. Did you get that CPD-Officer! Whose confused now.

cpd officer

CJ…I read it, didn’t think it warranted a response but since you STATED a question, I suppose I will respond. BTW, grammar and syntax seem to be your weak point. Any question, typically begins with words of inquiry, ends with “?,” which signifies a question.

The case you cited is not a SCOTUS ruling, I know you know, but just so the genius above you doesn’t try pointing that out. That said, the SCOTUS ruled that each state’s highest court is responsible for assigning officer duties. I think the legal loopholes in the first case are despicable. Essentially what the court ruled is that the two females on the roof were third-party callers. They uphold that in that state police only develop a special duty to first-party callers (the actual victim), otherwise they assume a general role of public safety. It is simply legalese designed to refuse a ruling for the victims, which is deplorable. Had the actual victims called, the special duty to a particular individual(s) would be established. Since it was third party callers, the state had no special duty to respond. In IL, this is not the case. I couldn’t imagine not forcing entry on a call like this.

The second part, which is quoted: “A California law states that “neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for failure to establish a police department or otherwise provide police protection service.”’ Since police/LE agencies are left to each respective state’s constitutions, not SCOTUS-defined, the different municipalities (what ILCS refers to towns as) can petition to establish a police force or to request outside agencies. For example, some municipalities in Cook County use the CCSD as their police force. Ergo, nothing exists to my knowledge in ILCS mandates that each municipality must have a form of police force. That said, the language from the above cited court case sounds like legalese, which translated to the layman, absolves a municipality,town, etc., of any responsibility from victims of crime in areas with no established police force exactly because of the absence thereof.

I’m not an attorney and have limited law training. I know, however, that I am bound by my agency’s “general orders.” My general orders stipulate that I have a duty to respond to calls, which are codified in order of precedence. The dispatchers decide when the calls go out and to whom. Officers have been late to domestics, one of which resulted in a party being murdered. The officers were fired. I highly doubt they tried to argue that they had “no duty to respond” and if they were incredulous enough to do so, they would be laughed out of court.

Enough for you CJ Turner?

Joe Fliel

And you can save the “grammatical errors” spiel for somepne else. I know they’re there. Unlike a cop when you need one.
Mark Matis

Try this on for size, Mr. CPD:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-278.ZS.html

Or isn’t Cornell University good enough for you?

But heck with you “protecting” Mere Citizens. How about you actually honor your oath to the Constitution for a change? You know, the one that give you the authority to pin on that badge and strap on that gun? But then you ARE one of the Brothers in Blue, so you don’t NEED no steenkin’ oath now, do you? Just keep doing what you’re told. Just like your fine Brothers in Blue from Germany.

truther

yet another reason i sleep next to my ar-15 with a drum clip and enough ammo to make a week long stand. screw the cops

Sven

Yes, Yes I could
jbw

They don’t have pillows in Somalia ….
Fred Derf

“Think you could live without those young men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting yours?” yes, and very well, thank you. when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. i have NEVER been saved from a criminal act by police, only by my own, or another citizen’s, action.
john

Sorry not trying to be rude but cops are a reactionary force. If they were not no crime would happen or go unsolved. So dont pat yourself on the back to hard. Watch out for yourself and dont be afraid to carry a gun unless you live in one of those cities that dont allow it, because they have repressive laws.
Mark Matis

Lying swill that spit on their oath of office, grovel before their Masters, and then do WHATEVER they are told should be respected? I guess that must be the “New York Way”! Better every one of them that dishonors their oath get a bullet in their head. And soon.

Pro Drinker

Was alcohol involved? Had the officer been DRINKING? I think that is the first question that should be asked. That is always the first question asked. WAS ALCOHOL INVOLVED in any way, shape, or FORM?

lance

Yeah! He proably drank the night before and had a wicked hangover, so he felt the only remedy was some lead asprin.

Whether he drank or not is irrelevant. Millions of people get drunk everyday and don’t blow their brains out. Even if he did drink, so what? It’s not like it’s the norm. Blaming the alcohol is a cop out (see what I did there?).

Eric

Completely understandable…he just found out the true identity of his girlfriend to be Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

Diamondback

OMG no wonder!

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha.

Now that IS a reason to take yourself out!

Linda Moore

Question if it was really suicide.

teatotaler

That’s what I think.

Libby Rull

We do not know why this officer committed ‘selficide’. We know only that he is deceased.

Was it self-defense?

This would be illogical, and since he won’t be charged, also irrelevant.

The device he was holding prior to discharging the firearm is purported to be the catalyst.

Ergo, cell phones and girlfriends are clearly deadly and must be outlawed.
Mark Matis

Some of them are basically honest, and when they find out they have been spitting on their oath of office to the Constitution for all those years…
sean patriot

Who would kill themsleves over a woman? He was obviously mental to begin with, that probably why she dumped him. How is this person a cop?

dead_hero

I’ll ask your b!tch the next time I see her.
Diamondback

See the beginning phrase of your second sentence.

Legislate This

We need the government to step in and make new anti-bullying, hate-crime legislation to protect police officers who are bullied by their girlfriends. That should fix things.
Indy Anna

Shut up already. Yoself gettin on my nerves.
Indy Anna

OMG – what a horrible comment. Rememba bro, yo mother is a B….., and granny also.
TooTimTop

I blame rap music

Abe

with the glorification of killing cops and abusing women, I don’t think rap music is contributing anything to a more stable and Utopian society. If anything, it says promotes violence and killing, so yes, I agree with you. Rap music deserves some of the blame along with the violence-dominated media.

Mike

A shouted litany of threats, boasts, and obscenities is not music.

MIKE

ITS THE US GOVERNMENT YOU NEED TO WORRY ABOUT!
Tony James

What was he doing taking a personal call while on duty?

CSI

What kind of question is that. Wake up. They are all on their phone while on duty.

nrichard

Very unstable and he had a legal right to carry a gun – fortunately, he was not like some others who would take out the girlfriend or her family then kill himself.

Jim Speed

EVERYONE has a Legal right to carry a gun.. You New Yorkers have allowed the Uber-Liberal Left politicians like schummer (rabid anti-gun) TAKE AWAY your rights.

Justin Case

God made some men small and some men big, but Sam Colt made them all equal
wrol1776

You win the prize Jim!! I served in the Army and Corps to defend those rights that the pigs in NYC have robbed the cowards of NY of. If the folks in NYC had guns – the law abiding ones – then the cops would be put in their place and tread a lot more lightly. Every time in history of humanity that a people have been disarmed they have subsequently experienced genocide, ethnic cleansing and slavery. The dumb folks of NYC are fish in a barrel.

Joey From Bensonhurst

Was she cheating on him?
Love NYC

You mean the ones that hide behind the anonymity of their computers?

Love NYC

My response was to address the “chickens” comment.

MIKE

WHAT ABOUT IT??????

Robert Nerren

Mike, you need help. All caps + government conspiracy = mental illness

MIKE

CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST!!

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