The Cost of Moral Injury
An RCMP member stood up and described a line of duty shooting. Not the moment of violence itself, but what came after. The silence from leadership. The bureaucratic shuffle. The people in the "white shirts" who suddenly became strangers when support was needed most.
Their words were simple but devastating: the lack of support was more damaging than the shooting itself.
This is moral injury. And it's time we understood what it's really costing