Bulletproof
A Cop's Guide to Financial Success
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Why should I read this book?
Anyone who works in law enforcement in this country automatically shares a bond with the author. I have completed a career as a police officer, and because of this, I can relate to you personally, financially, and emotionally. I have a basic familiarity with its salary structure; the common threads of a career in police work, i.e. the concerns and needs that officers commonly have. Most of all, I did it.
I made it to retirement and got out young. I believe that this “peek” back as to how I managed this will prove invaluable to you as an example. Just as retired professional athletes return to offer sports camps, or how retired CEOs go on 25K-a-pop speaking tours, here I am. What I want is to help you in a field that is simply overlooked in training. That is why you should read this book.
About the author — What do I know about him, and why should I take his advice?
I spent nineteen years in law enforcement, attending the police academy in 1984 and retiring honorably in 2003. I hold a bachelor's degree in criminology from
Shortly, I am to meet with an ex-lieutenant of mine who now heads the training department at the local police academy. I mentioned this book and its ideas to him, and Lieutenant Byrd responded quite enthusiastically. My hope is to have this guide added to the police academy reading list. The advice worked for me, it worked for David, and it will work for you.
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Bulletproof: A Cop’s Guide to Financial Success…This title was chosen by my nephew, Ryan R. Ward, from a list of more than a dozen choices I had compiled. This title, Ryan said, “nails it.” They say a book’s title, or cover is exactly what is judged by the browsing, undecided reader.
If, however, Bulletproof has been added to your academy’s reading list, or assigned to you in any way, then you’ve not been given the choice of either reading or passing up my book. Until I get word, somehow, of any disappointment by any of my readers, though, I’m holding off on an apology.
Bulletproof is a firsthand, narrative style guide, written in retrospect, in which I lay out in detail how an average cop was able to successfully retire from a career in law enforcement at a young age, financially secure, and how you can, too.
Every conceivable element I could imagine within the realm of finances, written directly to and concerning a law enforcement audience, has been addressed. Bulletproof covers how to get started on a sound saving/investing regimen; examines scenarios that everyone falls into; provides a full chapter answering questions you must have about the book’s content. Most of all, though, Bulletproof gives you the tools you’ll need to build the financial security necessary to retire successfully. It is tailored to you, my brother and sister officers.
What’s unique, I’m told, about Bulletproof is twofold: First, no such guide exists (and information is scant) which addresses financial training for law enforcement; and second, this book is written by someone who completed a career in police work, then sat down and looked back at the ten-year period which I devoted to preparing for my own retirement (saving/investing). In Bulletproof, I’ve detailed the same blueprint for you. I’m sure you’ll find this guide informative, entertaining, and most of all helpful in bulletproofing yourself financially.
About the Author
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I then began as a rookie police officer one week after graduating the Academy, on the Belleair (
Always the idealist and romantic, I wrote two noteworthy poems: “Ode to Jenny” and “Remembrances of Karen” which were published in Anthologies, by the National Library of Poetry, in 1995 and 1996, respectively. “Ode” took 3rd prize in a National Amateur open poetry contest in 1995.
I’m also a Master Freemason (Star Lodge #69 F. & A.M. ,
I never imagined writing a book. I’d rather look at it as perhaps offering to you something you may find useful.
As far as whether I’m qualified to do so, only you can say.