The brother of Officer Patsy Swank pointed to her working regular 12-hour shifts with little time off.
– She was a dedicated Chicago police officer and loving mom who tragically took her own life earlier this month.
Officer Patsy Swank was the first of three Chicago police officers lost to suicide in a little over two weeks. Her family blamed the culture at the Chicago Police Department and is demanding change from the department's top brass and speaking to CBS2's Megan Hickey."She was exhausted," said Clancy."She was out-worked, but the one thing that kept her going was going home to see that little boy.
Clancy said Swank's 5-year-old son Scottie was her world. But in the days and weeks before the 29-year-old officer took her life on July 2, Swank worked 22 days in a row and 12-hour shifts had become the norm.
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