And despite the concerns of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city will "probably" have to lay off cops for the first time in almost three decades.
What had raised the concerns of police, said the Victoria Police Chief Commissioner, Ken Lay, were reports of the teenager brandishing what appeared to be an Isis flag in a shopping centre.
Mr. Baggott said the reinforcements would not be deployed in Ardoyne or in other areas where violence could be expected, but this did little to allay the safety concerns of police representatives whose members have been called upon.
The groups, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and the Concerns of Police Survivors, said a total of 231 federal, state and local police officers were killed in 2001, up from 150 in 2000.
Suzie Sawyer, a co-founder of Concerns of Police Survivors, a nonprofit group that represents families of officers who die in the line of duty, said it can be difficult even to count suicides because "police agencies will try to say it's an accidental discharge, because it's pretty hard to admit that your good buddy is trying to end his life".
However, there has to be a spotlight on the mental health concerns of police officers as it relates to the issue of public safety.
Activist magazine Adbusters put out a call last month for 50,000 occupiers to "flock to Chicago, set up...peaceful barricades and #occupychicago for a month" in May, contributing to the concerns of police and city officials that increased security will be a necessity.
Police education programs designed to align policing with public health efforts targeting vulnerable populations have shown promise in other settings, especially when information about public health programs and policies is bundled with occupational safety content of concern to police (e.g., prevention of needle-stick injuries) [40], [41].
