The Superhero Handbook for Cops

A Guide for Navigating the Career with Honor, Principle, and Compassion While Avoiding Its Pitfalls and Hazards

American police officers are the real-life counterparts of our beloved fictional superheroes and superheroines.

The best cops…

• perform the law enforcement mission nobly, with honor, principle, and compassion

• practice excellent discretion, tempering the letter of the law with the spirit that animates it

• still believe in, and are proud symbols of, truth, justice, and the American way

• restrain their exercise of power according to Constitutional safeguards and agency guidelines

• behave “with malice toward none; with charity for all,” ensuring that the American justice system extends its protection and dignity—without discrimination or favor—to each and every community within our society

If you aspire to be the very best cop you can be, then this handbook has been designed especially for you!

"The Superhero Handbook for Cops" combines timeless wisdom with the newest research and technology to provide a powerful, comprehensive training program that nourishes the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and ethical dimensions of law enforcement officers.

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