Our impact

How we measure a good day

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

Midday - help arrives

Five hundred doors opened this year

One door for every injured officer we helped in 2026, grouped by the state they called from. The blue doors have a story behind them.

Still closed An officer we helped Back at work or back home A story you can read

0 of 500 doors open. Twelve states. Three national deployments. No door is a dollar amount and no door is a name we did not have permission to use.

The 99¢ promise

Of every hundred cents,
99 open a door

The last one keeps the phone line lit. We put the filings next to the number, because a promise you cannot check is a slogan.

Our founder has taken $0 in salary Every filed year from 2020 through 2024, Randy Sutton has drawn no pay from The Wounded Blue. It is in the public record.

Read 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, career 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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