Police officer found dead in apparent suicide in Okinawa

Japan gives 'death by cop' a whole new meaning...

It's an almost weekly thing! What is going on?

with a firearm by his side

Don't cops with guns always have their firearm by thier side?

Feeling guilty about something, no doubt...

Yeah, J-cops are tied to their firearms(literally).

RIP.

What did he do ? No really what did he do ? Seriously ????

He must have did something ????? Hmmmmmmm

According to the news report last night the police were investigating the incident as BOTH an accident and suicide.

The officer in question was working with firearms at the time and it could very well be just a sad accident.

Often happens here it seems, just the other week there was a young cop went upstairs and blew his brains out, wonder if these people join up with suicidal tendencies or does the job make them suicidal?

Getting a job with a gun while you have suicidal thoughts, perhaps they see it as a perfect solution better than leaping in the path of train.

Sad story.

What's the big deal? Just he is/was a cop? It is only one of a hundred suicides every day in Japan!

だから　なんだ？

This is a very serious warning sign together with the many other cases when police officers committed suicide with their service weapons. Raises the question what kind of filtering they have if they can a give badge to unfit people together with fire arms into their hands.

Suicide rates are strongly correlated with membership of professions that have the means to relatively pain free or quick suicide. In the UK, medical practitioners, vets and dentists (who have access to lethal drugs) and farmers (who have access to shotguns) have higher rates of suicide. Japanese cops walk around with the means to end it all at their belt and occasionally use it. That occasionally some do use their guns on themselves should come as no surprise. However, as usual in my humble opinion, headline JT "news" items are attempting to play to the chorus of 'oh isn't Japan sad/bad' saying anglophones.

There is a disconnect, police are and should be held up as being the top of the human food chain, they in force the laws thus are/ should be held as such, not gods but to account for their actions, blowing your brains out is not ( I hope not taught) in the job description! There is a serious problem in the system, we see the result but ignore the underlying problem. How many stories, about suicide and dodgy, bodgey investigations innocent people sent to jail and guilty released are required before there is even an admission of a problem? Training is more than fulfilling a time allotment at a facility. Stress can be managed certainly before plastering the wall with brain matter.

The pressures of being the new guy and fitting in with the "old boys club" that run rampant within the JP must have gotten to him. Several of my in-laws are/were JPs in Okinawa, including my brother-in-law. He quit after several years because the pressure to conform to the back asswards way they handle cases was too much for him.

when we arrive on earth, the script for our life is already written. Circumstance and our subconscious mind leads us through to our end. Think it over.

＞when we arrive on earth, the script for our life is already written.

If it is, I reserve the right to edit that script. It's mine, after all.

when we arrive on earth, the script for our life is already written. Circumstance and our subconscious mind leads us through to our end. Think it over

Okay, I'm thinking.......................Nope.