Thanks for your patience everyone while we work out some back-end issues. We lost all of our content from our short six months in operation but we expect everything to be rebuilt better than new.
We will be back as your are accustomed very soon, and we thank you for your continued support!
I know this is age old wisdom and since I’ve been preaching “having a plan” for six months on this site, you would think that I would have had a back up. Last week the CopsAlive site was hacked for the third time in it’s short six month lifespan. Both other times the web hosting service had a backup file that could be restored but not this time, this time it was corrupted. So as a wonderful learning lesson on the six month anniversary of CopsAlive we were down and out for a week.
We are back and if you’ll be patient we will manually upload all the old content and try to put CopsAlive back together again. Here’s a short audio message from our editor.
Thanks for your patience and thanks for your loyal readership for six months. We have some great things in store, so please stay tuned. And if you are running a website or any kind of web business (which I think you should be!) please learn from my lesson and have a backup that is in your control!
Who’s the best cop in the world? If I asked you about goal keepers, first basemen, quarterbacks or long distance runners you might have a faster and more opinionated answer. I’m not sure anyone can answer the question of who’s the best cop. First your mind raced to the issue that we are all on one team and it isn’t appropriate for one person to stand out. Or, your mind challenged the fact that it would be like comparing apples to oranges. What would we compare? Would we count the number of arrests or measure physical fitness? Would we analyze time spent on calls, number of traffic tickets or conviction rates? Part of the problem is that we over analyze instead of just asking the questions about how to be better cops, and to do that some great role models would be helpful. Continue reading
CopsAlive works in cooperation with The Law Enforcement Survival Institute to bring useful tools, ideas and strategies to police professionals who want to plan happy, healthy and successful lives and careers.
Law enforcement is the most noble profession in the world. Police officers deserve the very best the world has to offer as thanks for their valuable service to the world. Lots of money, time and resources are spent to help cops protect themselves on the job. Most of it is focused upon “officer survival” strategies that protect officers, deputies, constables, and correctional officers from armed assaults. A true threat assessment of a career in law enforcement reveals that there are many other threats and some of them are more serious. This site is dedicated to finding anything that will help cops successfully navigate their careers and survive in mind, body and spirit to enjoy the rest of their lives in peace no matter when the end of their career arrives.
I had a friend and fellow retired officer commit suicide last year. I didn’t realize how bad the police suicide stats were until I started doing some research. cops have very high suicide rates and lots of other health challenges. I think we would all acknowledge that we as a group have a high rate of alcoholism and divorce and maybe even financial problems. CopsAlive.com is here to work with you and to help you plan to have happy, healthy and successful lives and careers.
Good luck and stay safe!
Welcome to CopsAlive.com. CopsAlive works in cooperation with The Law Enforcement Survival Institute to bring useful tools, ideas and strategies to police professionals who want to plan happy, healthy and successful lives and careers.
What will you do with your life? Will you become one of the best cops in the world or will the job take it’s toll on you? CopsAlive will ask questions of you and of the experts on your behalf. We will consider the true threats to your life and ask you to conduct threat assessments for your life, health and career. Continue reading
“Saving the Lives of the People Who Save Lives”
Our mission of “Saving the Lives of the People Who Save Lives” extends from our “Armor Your Self™” training seminar to the Information, strategies and tools available on our website to help cops plan for happy, healthy and successful careers, relationships and lives.
The Armor Your Self™ on-site training program is an eight hour hands on “How to” seminar that helps police officers and other law enforcement professionals armor themselves physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. We also teach how to Armor Your Agency™ against the stresses and traumas inherent in careers in law enforcement.
Many people who serve, and who have served, in law enforcement bear the scars of the cumulative stresses that accompany the career. CopsAlive.com is operated by The Law Enforcement Survival Institute (LESI) where we work tirelessly to assemble strategies, tactics and best practices to help anyone working in this profession successfully survive their career. LESI and CopsAlive.com work with agencies and families to create environments that support healthy, happy and effective law enforcement professionals both on the job and at home.
CopsAlive is about Cops helping other Cops, stay alive!
When you read all of the statistics, it’s not about the bad guys killing us, it’s about other things like heart attacks, suicide, alcoholism and stress. Some of the other side effects of this career that help to ruin our quality of life are elevated rates of divorce, domestic violence and maybe even financial disaster. Law enforcement agencies around the globe spend millions of dollars each year to train their officers to survive armed or hand to hand combat, but most of them do not spend any money, or time, on telling officers what the real threats to their lives are and how to defend themselves from these threats.
CopsAlive.com was founded to provide information and strategies to help police officers successfully survive their careers. We help law enforcement officers and their agencies prepare for the risks that threaten their existence.
We do this by Helping Law Enforcement professionals plan for happy, healthy and successful lives on the job and beyond. We think the best strategy is for each officer to create a tactical plan for their own life and career.
It’s kind of like having a back-up on the job but this is about “Having a Backup Plan for Your Life”.
We need your help. CopsAlive is looking for contributors, photos and story ideas. We are looking for readers and members who support what we are doing. Please read our blog, sign up for an RSS feed, sign up as a member and spread the word to other cops around the world. If you want to get more involved become a contributor and send us your stories or story ideas.
Thanks,
John Marx, founder of CopsAlive
CopsAlive.com is operated by:
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CopsAlive.com is a forum for law enforcement officers on the issues that affect our lives, health and careers. If you would like to become a contributor please contact us.
We are also always looking for story ideas and interview subjects.
We need photographs and other materials to enhance this site. If you can help please let us know.
CopsAlive.com
Our mission of “Saving the Lives of the People Who Save Lives” extends from our “Armor Your Self™” training seminar to the Information, strategies and tools available on our website to help cops plan for happy, healthy and successful careers, relationships and lives.
CopsAlive is dedicated to assisting, supporting and conducting research into issues affecting the lives and health of people in the law enforcement profession. Currently we are utilizing survey instruments to conduct opinion surveys to discover what cops think about the issues facing them. This will assist us in developing scientific research studies that can provide facts to help you and your peers make decisions about what is important to your life, health and career.
You can be of assistance by taking the short surveys throughout this site. Just click on the buttons and take the surveys that will cost you no more than five minutes at a time. We respect the fact that your time is valuable and will label any longer, more comprehensive surveys as such.
This page is a place for us to invite your opinions by asking questions. Please assist CopsAlive.com in learning what cops think and what we need to find out more about.
A Survey of Police Officer Choices for Online Networking Sites CLICK HERE
A Quick Mixed Topics Opinion Survey CLICK HERE
A Quick Survey on Your Opinion of a Perfect Retirement CLICK HERE
Quick Survey on Officer’s Personal Threat Assessment Opinions CLICK HERE
Have you ever stopped to ask what’s really killing us? I’m not so sure the answers are as important now as the right questions. But a BIG questions are in doing a little threat assessment on our careers.
What’s the biggest threat to a police officer’s life? Is it being murdered by some felon? Is it a terrorists bomb? I think the biggest threat is the one most of are not facing head on – Stress and all of it’s side effects. Continue reading
Now this is a touchy subject for cops to discuss honestly. I know, some of you out there have been happily married for over 25 years but you have to admit that as a group we don’t manage relationships nor marriage very well.
Maybe we would fare better if we had some rules to follow. I asked relationship expert Janice Hoffman who has written a very helpful book entitled “Relationship Rules” for some suggestions and she gave me some rules that just might help out. Continue reading
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