Name: The Number One Cause of Death Amongst Police Officers
Uploaded: 2022-12-06T16:06:02.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Number One Cause of Death Amongst Police Officers' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Number One Cause of Death Amongst Police Officers' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-06. Transcript available.

mental health man you know knowing what can happen and how it happens and how
how you're not
going to be aware that it's happening and these are the warning signs don't
fuck around because
you're going to wake up one day people don't think it'll it'll be them and it
is number one
killer cops is suicide really number one killer cops is suicide they just have
a gun yes so you're
halfway there if you want to gosh yeah we had a guy that was in the police
department right next to
us um ended up getting to his car and with his the duty shotgun blew his head
off right before he
went out the shift was supposed to start but the number one killer is cops they
never tell you that
they never talk about mental health i went through the entire academy they
taught me how to put on a
tourniquet heal a sucking chest wound they taught me so many things but they
never made one mention
of how to you know how to work with your own head wow you know they never said
suicide is number one
killer cops i think that's changed i know it's changed but it's getting a lot
better um but
at that point there was no mention of that and these things accumulate i'm
giving you
one portion of one day oh i can't imagine especially like you know like i grew
up with a lot of childhood
trauma and um and a lot of people have right and it's really common and um and
that is tough enough
to deal with in regular life as it comes up later and you realize there's ways
that it affects you as an
adult right yes i can't imagine um whatever traumas you already have or things
that could have happened
in your past and then you're now just engulfed in this you're like a do you
feel like a damn for
trauma for people like do you feel like a reciprocal for me yeah because there's
so many things and then
you just have to go on to the next call is there um it depends you know people
don't take it's just
there's no way to really understand all the things that you experience just in
the shift
right let alone over a 20-year career especially if you're working different
assignments these horrific
things so the only people you do talk about that with are these guys that you're
doing it with
and nine times out of ten when you do talk about it later it's just it feels so
inappropriate
because you're you're it becomes a joke right the most horrific situations they
become funny
you know and it and anyone else that hears that it's it is a hard pill to
swallow you know it's a
hard for the general public to go why the fuck are they laughing right you know
what's so funny
you'll see sometimes on tv i'll see like homicide scenes on tv and i'll and i'll
i'll look at because
i'm conscious i'm aware of this i'll look at the officers around and you do it
for now on you'll see
every once in a while you'll see two guys and they'll be horrific murder scene
shootings whatever
and there's be two fucking cops right there and they'll be laughing wow you
know they'll be
communicating together and they'll be laughing and you go like oh dude that's
such bad optics
that's such but you totally understand it right you know the rest of the world
doesn't you're going
through such insane situations you know and it's so interesting that you guys
use humor to cope
because it's the same thing it's the same thing why a lot of comedians get into
things you know
things were traumatic or some type of way and so they used humor to survive you
know i think
it's amazing that mother nature uses that as like a uh like a governor on us
you know yeah where it's
like if you get so far you just laugh i think it's why the joker laughs in the
joker movies because at a
certain point he's just so mad yeah that oh there's nothing left to do but
laugh at it you know
pretty much the situations are so outrageous and like you said as far as the
bonds
please please there is strong bonds and and i'm married love my wife we've been
together for 20
years we talk about everything my best friend my entire career i never went
home and i never discussed
anything with her literally never discussed anything with there was never a
good time to come home and
say hey you know i saw a fucking kid die today you know all the things that
went on during the day
unless it was like really light really i never told her anything traumatic wow
because it's just never
a good time one of my close friends in the police department i became a patrol
sergeant and it was a
female most squared away female cop you've ever seen you just looked at her and
she screamed cop great
cop good person totally solid as time went on she started to deteriorate
mentally and because my
generation had never been taught about it we would you know you just need to
sack yeah sack the fuck
up you know toughen up thompson you need a cup of sack the fuck up and let's
get back to business
yeah so we fucking harden that vulva buddy that's it you know and we would not
we just didn't know
what it was well long story short she ended up not showing up for work and she
ended up killing
herself she ended up hanging herself and and i actually went to the house and
found her
um and with hindsight looking back at it there was so many warning signs there
were so many things that
she did when she was begging for help she actually came into the police
department at one point and was
hysterical and acting crazy and i had a pretty good relationship with her so i
told my lieutenant i'll
go out and talk to her i went and talked to her and i remember walking in going
holy shit she's gonna
kill herself she's so bad like even thinking that but it's almost like this
passive weird thing that we
just think i said it i said it out loud she's gonna kill herself she's that
crazy things are that bad
right now is what i was thinking and doing what cops did we made a fucking joke
out of her i remember
laughing i remember laughing and a week later she was dead not everybody sees
this stuff you know
nobody not everybody sees someone blow their head off you know i mean try that
once see how that
changes your life i can't even imagine really take one person and watch one
time watch someone in front
of them blow their head off and then and then see how it changes do an
experiment follow that guy
around see how that changes life now take that guy that same guy and do it for
20 years every
single day you know what do you expect i got a guy i worked with who's in texas
right now he's he's
working in a program a religious program that reaches out and helps cops and
firemen and first
responders with mental wellness and what's it called do you know uh charter oaks
charter oaks academy or
no not charter oaks charter oaks something but he um he just made me aware that
this one police department
in the last couple months six hot cops killed themselves you know you just don't
hear about that because
it's bad publicity cops don't even want that out you know it's a scary thing
when someone says oh cops
are all killing themselves wow all the cops are unstable there just is no good
publicity for cops
you know so and what's happened recently what happened this last time with the
uh the riots and the the
political aspect that got involved and allowed it to continue and the way it
was
put on the media and portrayed it's it's it's set us back a lot it's set
policing back a lot hope you
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