The Watch Your Six Podcast: Real, Relevant, and Life-Changing Resources for Law Enforcement Officers and Families

Do work an endless cycle of off-duty extra jobs just to pay the bills each month? Are you facing overwhelming debt, or dealing with other poor financial practices that keep you from feeling like you'll ever get ahead? In this episode, I suggest that in difficult situations such as getting out of debt and ahead in our finances we must take immediate and drastic actions to "stop the bleeding." I offer three very practical steps for eliminating debt, and explain how to implement each step.

Jim Bontrager is the Senior Chaplain with the Elkhart Police Department in Elkhart, IN and Master Level Chaplain with the International Conference of Police Chaplains. Jim is an advocate for police officers and their families, having obtained multiple proclamations from the Indiana Governor's Office in support of law enforcement. In this episode, Jim shares the most recently proclamation and invites the Watch Your Six audience to the 23rd Annual Officer Appreciation Day and Breaching the Barricade Conference to be hosted in October 2017.

Hurricane Harvey was a category 4 hurricane that struck the Houston and Southeast Texas area on August 26, 2017. Many areas received 40-50 inches of rain, which caused severe flooding and devastation. It has been considered the costliest natural disaster to date. In this episode, Jonathan speaks with Former LEO Steve Visser of First Baptist Church of Groves, TX and others about the ongoing relief efforts, and how our listeners can offer the most effective assistance in the recovery process.

The legend of the Tin Man, a lumberjack named Nick Chopper, says that a spell was cast on his axe. One by one, his limbs were chopped off and replaced by the tinsmith. Soon, the lumberjack could produce more chopped wood with his tin body than his human body. The only problem was that the tinsmith forgot to replace the lumberjack's heart, leaving him empty and devoid of emotion. Like the Tin Man, many cops are production machines, but it has come at the expense of their heart. In this episode, Jonathan shares a recent message from Cop Church Chattanooga in which he asks the question, "How do we connect with an invisible God when the painful, cutting experiences of life have left us with a negative, distant, or emotionless view of Him?"

Ken Alexandrow, founder of Agape Tactical, spent 26 years serving the citizens of middle Tennessee as a career police officer. He worked patrol, as a training instructor for the Metro Nashville Police Academy, on the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force, and as a Field Training Officer. In this episode, Ken talks about the services offered by Agape Tactical, the benefits of scenario and reality-based training, and another area of expertise - church security. He offers tips for starting a church security team and recruiting members to serve.