Our impact

Proof, not adjectives

Every number on this page is either published by us with a date attached, or filed with the IRS where anyone can pull it.

This year

Twelve states, three deployments

A deployment is a team on a plane inside 48 hours, sent to an agency that just lost someone or nearly did.

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Straight to injured officers Keeping the lights on

Where the money goes

99 cents of every dollar
goes to an injured officer

Not a slogan. A number you can hold us to, published next to the filings that prove it.

Our founder has taken $0 in salary Every filed year, 2020 through 2024, Randy Sutton has drawn no pay from The Wounded Blue. That is in the public record, not in a brochure.

See the filings

Since our founding

The long number

17,000+

Officers served nationwide

since our founding

1,000+

Officers helped in 2025

in that year alone

Salary taken by our founder

every filed year, 2020-2024

"More than 1,000 officers in 2025 alone, bringing our total to over 17,000 served nationwide." - Jesse Watts, Executive Director, year-end 2025.

Leadership

Who runs this

Randy Sutton

Founder & Chair of the Board. Retired Las Vegas Metro lieutenant, ended by a stroke on the Strip. Has taken $0 in salary every filed year since 2020.

Jesse Watts

Executive Director. Retired Sheriff-Coroner, Eureka County, Nevada.

The board

Seven members, including Betsy Brantner Smith, Bret Rawson, Kenneth Bator, Ronald Coury, Dr. Travis Yates and John Krupinsky.

Are you an injured officer, or someone who loves one? Call 833-TWB-TALK and an officer who has been through it answers. This is peer support, not an emergency service - in an emergency call 911, and in a mental-health crisis call or text 988.

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