THREE WAKE-UP CALLS, ONE ANSWER
Suicide. Domestic violence. Officer safety. Different numbers, same recurring failure.
ONE DEATH EVERY 11 MINUTES
48,824 Americans died by suicide in 2024, roughly one every 11 minutes. Since 2000, the cumulative total has surpassed 800,000, and the rate hasn’t improved over that span. It’s risen roughly 30%, from about 10.4 per 100,000 in 2000 to nearly 14 per 100,000 today, despite two decades of expanding awareness campaigns, hotlines, and mental health funding. Two decades of investing more into the status quo response-first approach, and the trend has moved the wrong direction. The data is a wake-up call; it is time to move beyond status quo strategies.
NEARLY FOUR WOMEN A DAY
Domestic violence tells a different, in some ways more alarming story: real progress, then a sharp reversal. Intimate partner violence declined 64% nationally from 1994 to 2010, genuine, sustained progress. Then it reversed. By 2019, nearly four women a day were being murdered by intimate partners. Between 2019 and 2024, domestic homicides more than doubled, from 1,065 to 2,339, according to FBI data.
A CDC study covering 2018-2021 found that the proportion of intimate partner homicide suspects who had contact with law enforcement in the preceding 12 months rose roughly 30%. The CDC’s own conclusion: “contact with law enforcement represents a potential missed opportunity for preventing future violence.” That’s not our framing; that’s the federal government’s. The data is a wake-up call; it is time to move beyond status quo strategies.
A POLICE OFFICER SHOT NEARLY EVERY DAY
As of July 31, 2026, 198 law enforcement officers had already been shot in the line of duty this year, a rate of nearly one officer shot every single day and 17 killed, according to the Fraternal Order of Police. Las Vegas lived this firsthand: its ninth officer-involved shooting of the year, the sixth fatal, involved a suspect with three prior, documented law enforcement contacts, all related to mental health and well-being checks, none rising to a criminal threshold. No single contact looked like an emergency. Together, they were a pattern no one was positioned to see. The data is a wake-up call: it is time to move beyond status quo strategies.
ONE ANSWER, NOT THREE SEPARATE FIXES
Suicide, domestic violence, and officer safety are usually treated as three unrelated problems, three budgets, three sets of experts, three separate initiatives. They share the same underlying failure: pre-incident information that existed, it was scattered across silos that were never collected and connected into a full picture for existing resources to act on before the harm occurred. A different, research-driven, field-tested community-wide strategy that moves beyond status quo to fix the underlying and recurring gaps for all three challenges is the answer for these three wake-up calls… and many others too.
Most people would agree this is unacceptable. The question is whether we’re ready to fix the underlying recurring problems, or keep responding to one tragedy at a time, and asking why this keeps happening?