Trauma-Informed Policing: Cops, COVID and TIC

The Crime Victims’ Institute at Sam Houston State University found that roughly 1 of every 7 college students surveyed at a Texas University have deliberately cut blood flow to the brain by choking themselves or by being choked by others in order to experience a brief euphoric high.“The Choking Game, also known as the Fainting Game, Pass Out, or Space Monkey, is played individually or in groups and involves manually choking oneself or others, applying a ligature around the neck or a plastic bag over the head, placing heavy objects on the chest, or hyperventilating to attain a euphoric feeling. This practice has led to several suffocation deaths in Texas and across the country.”Researchers surveyed 837 students in an attempt to find out more about the type of