Aliso Viejo mayor’s message: talk to your teens

One of the worst calls a first responder goes to is suicide. My first day on patrol I was dispatched to a suicide involving a middle-aged man who was suffering mental health issues. The family watched as he slowly and uncontrollably fell into the abyss of mental illness, culminating in him taking his own life. They were helpless in the aftermath, asking me if there was something more they could have done. I had no answers. When, in subsequent years on patrol, it involved a child or teenager, it