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Do you by any chance have any follow up to this story? http://www.buffalo.edu/content/dam/www/news/imported/pdf/January10/BostonGlobeSuicide.pdf

Its about a state police captain who had a hard struggle with PTSD and eventually took his own life. People are very quick to be critical of the Police. This article made me realize that you can not know what happens when there shift is over...

... I remember reading about this in the Globe a while back... Curious whatever happened to his family...
Very sad

Piggybacking off of this question...

You may not have a response to this. I am not sure if you were involved specifically but nevertheless I'll try: Globe spotlight can be incredibly harsh in terms of the things they investigate. What comes to mind is the recent probation scandal. Did the globe in anyway forsee federal indictments being handed down, yet alone convictions? Doesn't it seem that the spotlight team singled out people who were just following the customs within the department? I support the globes work in showing us wrongs, but I see the result of this story as people being scapegoated... and I am curious what the goal was of the spotlight team from the beginning. Also one of the reporters seemed incredibly blood hungry in going after John J Obrien and I am curious why, even the judge realized that these people were just following the culture within their department.

Also with the recent UVA/RollingStone craziness... one might wonder, did you reach out to the police officers accused to make your story well balanced?

I admire the work of the Boston Globe, I don't mean to be critical, only to inquire as to the means that these stories are developed...