The Superhero Handbook for Cops: A Guide for Navigating the Career with Honor, Principle, and Compassion while Avoiding Its Pitfalls and Hazard

Chaplain Rabbi Cary A. Friedman’s new book is a must have for every police officer and department.The Superhero Handbook for Cops: A Guide for Navigating the Career with Honor, Principle, and Compassion brings together Cary’s insights into policing and superheroes to deliver a guide that can lift police officers out of the funk that has drifted over every department in the land.This is the pep-talk and longterm spiritual framework that can re-connect officers to their calling.

I received this book as a gift. I knew I was onto a good read as soon as I read the introductions. This guy has stature in his community.The interesting thing about this book, in my opinion as a former first responder, is that while he's never carried a badge (other than a chaplain's shield) he's one of our tribe. No fancy nonsense, no shaming, just an honest approach to how to keep yourself strong and clean over a career in the emergency services.I highly recommend this to anyone in the field.

The thesis of _The_Superhero_Handbook_for_Cops_ begins with the recognition of four aspects of an individual’s health and well-being: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Any person is advised to tend to the wellness of each of her four aspects. But few people in the population confront the demands that the profession of law enforcement imposes on police officers. That the job taxes an officer’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness necessitates that he undertake measures to fortify all of the components. Neglect of any one of these components actually leaves the other three vulnerable, because of what the author describes as “The Interconnectedness Principle.” This principle, the author states, “demands that we engage in a type of integrated training of all [four] of our aspects, instead of training individual aspects independent of the others.” The book then presents strategies for addressing each component so that an officer can survive in the profession and even thrive over the duration of her career.In so far as it is unthinkable that a police officer would do _nothing_ to bolster his physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness, he is well-advised to obtain this book and use it as a guide to maintaining health and wellness or, otherwise, to find some other source of guidance. This book is likely to prove to be a more economical option compared to the alternatives. Certainly, this book is a worthwhile starting point for an officer’s necessary process of ensuring that her profession will not overwhelm and eject her.