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!
About Editor
John Marx was a Police Officer for twenty-three years and served as a Hostage Negotiator for nineteen of those years. He worked as a patrol officer, media liaison officer, crime prevention officer and burglary detective. Also during his career he served as administrator of his city's Community Oriented Governance initiative through the police department's Community Policing project. Today John combines his skills to consult with businesses about improving both their security and their customer service programs. John retired from law enforcement in 2002. When one of his friends, also a former police officer, committed suicide at age 38, John was devastated and began researching the problems that stress creates for police officers. He decided he needed to do something to help change those problems and he wanted to give something back to the profession that gave him so much. He started a project that has evolved into CopsAlive.com. Put simply, the mission of CopsAlive is to save the lives of those who save lives! CopsAlive.com gathers information, strategies and tools to help law enforcement professionals plan for happy, healthy and successful careers, relationships and lives.
Glad to see your back.