When it comes to what stresses police officers out, it's not the car chases, or the threat of getting shot at, or even killed.
Ask Cherie Castellano, director of Cop2Cop, a 24-hour-hotline that fields up to 850 phone calls every month for stressed-out police officers, and she'll tell you the worst part of an officer's job is secondhand trauma: exposure to murders, car accidents, seeing hurt kids, all the horrible things police have to deal with on a daily basis. But she says there's a close No. 2. Some argue it may even be No. 1. And it happens after the car chases are over.