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A |     The cell phones, tablets, and laptops left behind by veterans who died by suicide may offer insight that could help prevent future military suicides, according to a nonprofit dedicated to analyzing the data from the devices.Stop Soldier Suicide collects the technology as part of its initiative, "The Black Box Project," which is named after the black boxes found on planes that help determine the cause of aviation incidents."If we could gather novel data from those that have died by suicide, we might be able to recreate the last year of life," Stop Soldier Suicide CEO Chris Ford told ABC News.Veterans are 57% more at risk for suicide than non-military adults and around 6,000 veterans die by suicide each year, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs."I think we can prevent needless suffering and a ton of loss of life," Ford said.That kind of loss is something David McDaniel, whose son Connor died by suicide at the age of 26, knows all too well.Connor McDaniel joined the Army after high school, and, according to David, he appeared upbeat during his deployment to Afghanistan, where he was assigned to protect local villages from the Taliban."Some of his Army buddies told me that he was making them laugh while they were being shelled in Afghanistan," David McDaniel told ABC News.But it wasn't long after Connor came home that David McDaniel says he sensed a shift in his son's behavior to include "more anger, a lot of frustration, a lot of gloominess."On Sept. 1, 2021, David says his son entered a wooded area with a firearm."I start screaming his name as I'm walking up the field. And just then the police, the sheriff's department shows up and they tell me to come back down," McDaniel said.He followed their direction, but on the car ride home, an officer called him and said Connor was dead after he fired upon sheriff's deputies and the deputies returned fire and killed him.Connor's death was determined to be a suicide. The district attorney's office concluded that the officers' actions were justified.While grappling with his son's death, David McDaniel was immediately drawn to the Black Box Project, which uses forensic software to unlock and comb through service members' devices provided by their loved ones to review their activity in the weeks leading up to their suicides.McDaniel works in the tech field and says if the project can find repeated patterns in online searches, they may be able to help others to prevent suicides.For instance, McDaniel says his son searched for SGLI, Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, before his death. If a veteran were to make a similar search and look up "suicide" in the future, for example, McDaniel suggests it could trigger an ad for Stop Soldier Suicide to pop up and provide resources in the search results.Ford says the nonprofit uses machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, to analyze texts and notes in order to determine sentiment or emotional tone, such as anger or desperation. He says they can also track phone usage of the deceased veterans to monitor their past sleep cycles and trace their past geo-locations."Machines can go through computations a lot faster than humans, and they can find signals that we often miss," Ford said.Since launching the Black Box Project in April 2020, Stop Soldier Suicide has received over 100 devices, Ford said. So far, he says they're seeing three patterns before most of these suicides: more anger, different sleep patterns, and social isolation.Ford's team includes Ph.D.s in clinical psychology and suicide researchers. A scientific advisory committee helps steer where and what to look for on the devices.The findings are still preliminary, according to the nonprofit, but one goal is to help the organization decide where, when, and how to target their own mental health resources, like adding more hotline staff at certain hours and ensuring calls are picked up overnight.When asked about privacy concerns of collecting data, Ford said it's something they think about daily."We don't resell the data. We don't push it out to others. We use it for our own research purposes so that we can best understand risk and then give those devices back to those families intact," Ford said.Current privacy laws do not carry on past death, meaning the next of kin typically gains new authority.Petra Oxford-Jackson, whose veteran husband Anthony died by suicide, says she gave his phone to the organization with the possibility it could save even one life."I truly believe he would have been okay with it, and it's a hard thing for a survivor to give up something so personal as his cell phone," Oxford-Jackson told ABC News.The Black Box Project received $3 million in funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs earlier this year.If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide or worried about a friend or loved one, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 for free, confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.。    视频加载中...1月8日晚8时，中央纪委国家监委网站推出电视专题片《反腐为了人民》第四集《以案促改促治》。

B | 专题片披露，曾任重庆市江津区区长的王合清被“保姆式”围猎，在鞍前马后的奉承里迷失方向。

C | 王合清，重庆市政府文史研究馆原党组书记，曾任重庆市万州区委常委、秘书长，江津区委副书记、区长等职务，2023年5月接受审查调查。在这之前，和王合清密切交往十多年的商人张勇被带走调查，王合清却心存侥幸。他认为，张勇和自己交情最“铁”，两人也早就商量过怎么统一口径，张勇绝不会轻易松口。然而，实际情况却不像他想的这样。

D | 王合清刚到案时，本打算按照和张勇统一好的口径负隅顽抗，但让他意外的是，专案组根本不和他谈张勇的事，上来就直奔别的违纪违法问题。以利相交，利尽则散。自以为牢固的攻守同盟竟然轻易瓦解，王合清虚妄的“信心”也就瞬间崩塌，交代了全部违纪违法事实。

E | 专案组很快梳理出了王合清的“朋友圈”，和他深度勾连近三十年的另一名行贿人汪坤，也浮出了水面。王合清早年是一名教师，调入万州区教委工作后逐渐得到提拔重用，35岁就担任了领导干部，这也让一些不法商人把他看作含金量颇高的“潜力股”。在王合清的行贿人中，张勇和汪坤是围猎他最下功夫的两个人，王合清的数千万元非法所得，绝大部分都来自张勇和汪坤。汪坤是一家小建筑企业的老板，他的妻子和王合清的妻子先认识成了朋友，汪坤借此机会，开始有意拉近和王合清的关系。两家人常在一起吃饭休闲，甚至一起出门旅游，所有花费都是汪坤“大方”地买单，对王合清一家的各种喜好也照顾得十分周到。

F | 据重庆纪委工作人员介绍，两家的家属是一种闺蜜关系，汪坤的夫人和王合清的夫人两人平时交往比较多。汪坤和王合清密切交往几年后，当万州区教委要建一座综合楼，汪坤觉得“收获”的时机来了，向时任区教委主任的王合清提出了想承接这个建筑工程的请托。

G | 王合清平时享受了不少汪坤殷勤服务带来的便利，也就利用职务便利违规打了招呼，让汪坤顺利拿到了这个项目，并从中获利数百万元。

H | 看到汪坤在自己打招呼关照下获得了巨额利益，王合清的心态开始不平衡了。在这样的心态下，当汪坤送上30万元表示感谢时，王合清也就收下了。此后，王合清又陆续帮汪坤拿了几个工程，汪坤奉上的钱财数目越来越大，王合清也越陷越深，自然也就对其他老板的围猎没有了免疫力。张勇也是个搞工程的小老板，2007年在一次朋友聚会上认识了王合清。

I | 张勇看好王合清的前途，开始花大力气“钻研”他的喜好，投其所好。

J | 张勇对王合清的贴靠堪称全方位：发现王合清无暇购物，张勇就记下尺码，每逢换季到商场为他选购高档衣物。创造更多机会陪王合清吃喝玩乐，张勇还有意教会了王合清打麻将，随后又特意租下一套公寓作为专属麻将室，陪他过牌瘾。发现王合清爱吃什么，张勇就用心研究食材和做法。围猎者绞尽脑汁揣摩领导干部的喜好与需求，投其所好、大献殷勤，目的不外乎是为了谋取不正当利益。2013年，王合清任江津区区长，刚上任不久，区里有条道路要改造，张勇就向他提出了请托，已经享受张勇服务多年的王合清自然无法拒绝。

K | 请托王合清的第一个工程，张勇就赚了200多万利润。为了进一步套牢王合清，张勇也十分舍得下本钱，他当即就拿出一半利润分给了王合清，让王合清深感这个“朋友”相当“大气”，值得交往。有了利益变现，张勇更加精心维护着这段关系，王合清自然也投桃报李，对张勇的请托有求必应，不仅亲自出面和有关领导牵线搭桥，甚至主动替他物色项目、承揽工程。仅在江津区担任区长的三年里，王合清就为张勇承揽到7个项目。王合清在行贿人鞍前马后的奉承里逐渐迷失了方向，在无微不至的贴心服务中逐渐放下了戒备，最终在糖衣炮弹的攻击下败下阵来。

L | 如今回头看去，种种诱饵铺就的道路，尽头是万劫不复的深渊。经查，王合清利用职权为他人在工程承接、土地开发、资金拨付等方面谋利，非法收受财物3700余万元，其中，收受张勇2100余万元，收受汪坤710余万元。2024年1月，王合清被开除党籍、开除公职，2024年6月一审被判处有期徒刑十三年三个月。2024年10月，汪坤因犯单位行贿罪，被追究刑事责任。2024年11月，张勇因涉嫌单位行贿、行贿犯罪，被移送检察机关审查起诉。三人所获不正当利益已依法予以收缴。编辑: 周杰责编: 傅群。

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