1.   Before two police officers killed themselves this week, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton had already stepped up counseling efforts.

2.   But Dan Nelson, a psychiatrist who is coordinating the Red Cross counseling effort, said the wait for the families has been grueling.

3.   In addition to her counseling efforts, Kurtz has found a new avocation, working in collage, acrylics and watercolors.

4.   The New York police have tried to balance counseling efforts with punishments calibrated to the offense.