Cops Alive | Police Stress and Health - Career Survival

“True Blue Valor™” is where one law enforcement officer has to muster the courage to confront a peer who is slipping both professionally, and personally, and endangering themselves, their peers and the public.

It’s not about just religion but about any spiritual influence that gives police officers the kind of character that allows them to endure the toxic nature of police work and maintain their sanity over the years of a demanding police career.

Are we too lenient in not wanting to play cop at home and police our own kids? Or is it that we are too strict at home and we spend too much time acting like we do at work with our own kids?

You have a choice to be an inspirational person and you have a choice about being an inspiration as a police officer. You can inspire trust within our communities and you can inspire others to become better cops.

If the true goal of law enforcement is really the prevention of crime then maybe we need to spend more time with the people we meet in passing and have a small bit of influence upon and work toward making them the best people they can be so that we as police officers don’t have to work with them again in an enforcement capacity. In this endeavor, gratitude can be a powerful tool.

Cops can plan for their vision of a successful life and career with the help of this article, video and planning worksheet.

Police officers and law enforcement professionals should understand and appreciate the meaning of the word freedom and we should be very clear about what the concept of independence means to us.