Jackie Bezart has been a police officer for the Long Beach Police Department for the past eight years. Her assignments have included patrol officer, recruiting officer, background investigator, youth services and Police Athletic League. Her current assignment is Police Cadet Coordinator and department spokeswoman assigned...
Tim Brown is with the Bakersfield Police Department in Bakersfield California. On January 18th, 2007, I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer during a routine physical examination. My cancer was later determined to be stage three because it had spread to my lymph system. Within days of...
Curtis J. Cope is a retired law enforcement official. My survivor story is two fold. I was diagnosed with CML in March of 2004. I was blessed with the fact that the medication Gleevac had been approved by the FDA in late 2001. That is the...
Maria Lopez is an officer with the Long Beach Police Department in Long Beach, California. Tuesday, April 15, 2008 was a beautiful and typical Southern California day. Driving north on the 710 Freeway with my partner, talking and laughing about the job, I suddenly was jolted...
Bob Griffith has been a Reserve Officer with the La Palma Police Department in Southern California since 1992. He works out of Patrol and Detective Divisions and is a member of the North Orange County SWAT team. Prior to La Palma he served as a...
Colleen Taylor is an officer with the Santa Ana Police Department in Santa Ana, California. The first time I was diagnosed with cancer I was 29 years old and, like most people that age, I thought I was bullet proof. I went to my doctor to...
In 2003, I observed a small black spot on the top of my right ear. I went to my primary care physician and he discounted the spot and "burned it off." Over the course of the next year, it grew back which made my wife...
On June 18, 2007, I was at a work function attending a dinner, when I received a message on my Blackberry from my wife Lysa. The message was actually a question. When are you coming home? Now you need to understand that my wife rarely...