{"id":208978,"date":"2026-03-17T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208978\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:36:12","slug":"sheriffs-departments-james-coppi-likes-helping-people-if-its-those-being-taken-advantage-of-or-just-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208978\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff&#8217;s Department&#8217;s James Coppi likes helping people &#8230; if it&#8217;s those being taken advantage of, or just friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department: Lubbock Sheriff\u2019s Department<\/p>\n<p>Name: James Coppi<\/p>\n<p>Rank: Deputy<\/p>\n<p>How long with department: Three years (five years with Wolfforth PD prior to LSO)<\/p>\n<p>Roles: Patrol deputy, FTO (Field Training Officer).<\/p>\n<p>Education (high school, college\/degrees): Silver Valley High School (California), University of Phoenix \/bachelor\u2019s degree in Business Management<\/p>\n<p>Professional Certification Level: Master Peace Officer<\/p>\n<p>Honors\/highlights: No highlights, I\u2019m bald.<\/p>\n<p>Why did you choose this profession? I love to help people and I strongly dislike those who take advantage of others.<\/p>\n<p>How do you deal with stressful situations? Take a few deep breaths, don\u2019t overthink, just act. Common sense has not failed me yet.<\/p>\n<p>Hobbies &amp; interests: I love working on cars, reloading, sport shooting, hunting, camping and spending time with family doing all of previously listed activities.<\/p>\n<p>Community involvement beyond work: None specifically, my time away from work is spent with family. If ever a friend needs help and I am able, I was raised to provide help. If I\u2019m not with family, I will be somewhere<br \/>else lending a hand.<\/p>\n<p>Quote: The only regrets in life are the chances you never took.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lubbocklights.com\/please-press-the-button-and-become-a-lubbock-lights-supporter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/volunteer_activism_96dp_000000_FILL0_wght400_GRAD0_opsz48.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11787\" style=\"width:80px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related posts\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Department: Lubbock Sheriff\u2019s Department Name: James Coppi Rank: Deputy How long with department: Three years (five years with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-208978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}