Reflections
After finishing this project, I am pleased with what I was able to find out, but I now know that there is more I want to find out. I plan to continue my research and see what more i can learn. I am personally glad that I chose this project to do, because it is a subject that is personal to me in a way, because of my grandfather who was a retired police officer. Overall I was surprised by the results of suicide being the most common one. You always hear about how officers were involved in this shooting or this accident, but you do not hear about ones committing suicide. From that it just never occurred to me that suicide could really be the highest rate of deaths. However, after researching this, I understand the reasons behind why it is so high and can see how it really is the highest. For the same reason of the media coverage, I did expect homicides to be the top not the bottom, so that surprised me, and it is nice to know that the numbers have went down. I am glad that I was able to learn so much from this project and in a way I am also glad that it wasn't was I expected and got a surprise.