Clarence Page: Police suicides raise questions about a hidden pandemic
A suicide in the upper ranks of Chicago’s Police Department amid a surge in the city’s already high homicide rate highlights a painful reality about this summer: We’re dealing with more than one pandemic.
That realization came to mind after Deputy Chief Dion Boyd, 57, was found shot to death last week at the Homan Square police facility on the city’s West Side.
With the ruling by the Cook County medical examiner’s office after an autopsy, the
