Night Patrol for Tired Cops: Police lose sleep over workday hassles

You need to be well-rested and alert to catch criminals and uphold the law. However, many of the public servants charged with these duties suffer from insomnia and other serious sleep problems, according to a new study.

Among big-city police officers, about half go without a good night’s sleep because of myriad everyday pressures at work, say psychiatrist Thomas C.