General Information About the Program
About
Adopt A Cop BJJ is a nonprofit, donation based program and registered 501(c)3 that allows active duty patrolling police officers around the country to train at any Adopt A Cop BJJ affiliated academy and will pay 100% of the officer’s membership until they reach the rank of Blue belt. Blue belt is the second ranked belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and on average it takes around 12 to 18 months to obtain.
Most individuals with a blue belt level of knowledge have an immense advantage in controlling a combative situation over someone who has no knowledge or experience in grappling regardless of size, strength or even gender to an extent.
Often times police find themselves in combative situations that can turn deadly and during these times being the more skilled grappler can potentially save the lives of not only the officers but the suspects as well.
If police felt more confident in their abilities to control potentially combative situations, they would be less likely to draw their weapons out of fear for their own safety.
Having the necessary skills in order to control the situation will lead to less opportunities for a combative situation to escalate by keeping suspects from getting to and gaining control of officers weapons and/or putting the officers in vulnerable positions where they feel the need to use deadly force.
In order to make donations go further and allow as many police officers as possible to receive this potentially life saving training, Adopt A Cop BJJ affiliated academies literally "Adopt a Cop" and allow the first police officer to train for free until the officer reaches the rank of Blue belt. Adopt a Cop BJJ affiliated academies provide a special rate of $50 a month for additional officers sponsored through our program.
We are excited to partner with Adopt-A-Cop to provide Officer Training, and Self-Defense here in the Deer Park, La Porte TX area.
Detective Bish with the La Porte PD, and Officer Tristian with the La Porte PD
Donations are need
Donation Information
If you want to support the program you can purchase T-shirts, coins, patches and stickers; 100% of the proceeds go directly to sponsoring police officers training or you can simply donate any amount you’d like to their donor box on the Adopt-A-Cop website.
To all the police out there, thank you for your service and to all the people who donate and contribute to this program, thank you for your support! Please share this information and help spread the word in order to get as many officers into training as possible!