Trending Topics
P1_Y_Avatar 900x900.png

Barbara A. Schwartz

Living with the Sacrifice

Barbara A. Schwartz has dedicated her life to supporting the brave officers of law enforcement.

Schwartz is certified as a first responder peer supporter by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) and the Law Enforcement Alliance for Peer Support (LEAPS). She maintains specializations in grief, injured officer support, suicide prevention, and traumatic stress injuries.

As a Police Explorer scout and reserve officer, Schwartz served in patrol and investigations. Her articles and book reviews have appeared in American Police Beat, The Thin Blue Line, Command, The Tactical Edge, Crisis Negotiator Journal, Badge & Gun, The Harris County Star, The Blues, The Shield, The Police News, Police1.com and Calibre Press Newsline.

Schwartz was instrumental in securing the passage of the Blue Alert legislation in all 50 states. She is proud to be a founding member of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Foundation.

She maintains memberships in the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) and the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA).

LATEST ARTICLES
Tactically sound officers, with the best officer survival skills and training, seem to suffer the most in the aftermath of getting shot. Read on to understand why
For officers who encounter daily threats, their coiled rope can cause inappropriate reactions
“The Long Road Home” is a fictionalized account of Sandy Wall’s many years as a Houston police officer and SWAT operator
Witnessing despicable evil shatters an officer’s assumptions about how the world is supposed to work
To those men and women in blue who go to work each day to bring hope to the hopeless, to save a life and maybe a soul – we honor you
We have lost the world we knew and the lives we lived
With law enforcement blamed for society’s ills and the future of policing uncertain, officers face new traumas and total exhaustion
You cannot control the rhetoric, but you can control the kind of police officer you choose to be
Law enforcement agencies must take a multi-faceted approach to officer wellness that brings programs and services directly to cops
Cops can benefit from the hard-won lessons of the Apollo flight controllers