How a SC sheriff’s department is combatting police PTSD on the front-end

Author: Tim Dees By W. Thomas Smith Jr. For years, Richland County (S.C.) Sheriff Leon Lott had been troubled by the mental and emotional fatigue he feared his deputies risked as a result of the ordinary stresses of life combined with the often-harsh realities of patrol work and lack of awareness the public has about the challenges of police work. Lott knew his men and women probably were not suffering any more or less than other law enforcement officers nationwide, but the risks to...