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Chad Perez

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Chad Perez is a serial entrepreneur and highly decorated law enforcement veteran who has served in SWAT, narcotics, and gang investigations. He has received eleven award medals, including a Medal of Merit, a Purple Heart, and a Lifesaving Medal, and is a two-time Officer of the Year recipient. Following his law enforcement career, Chad founded Pinnacle Security and scaled it to four hundred employees, earning a spot on the Inc. magazine list of fastest-growing private companies four times. He is the co-founder and CEO of Aegis Response, a business providing alternative response services for law enforcement agencies. Chad lives outside of New Orleans with his wife, Leighet; their son, Braiden; and their dog, Max.

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We were there. We never left.

For twenty years, the story of what NOPD officers and first responders did in the first five days after Katrina was buried beneath the scandals and the politics. It was never told the way it deserved to be.

Treading Water is my attempt to tell it.

To everyone who has picked up a copy this week, thank you. To the officers, firefighters, and families who have reached out to say they found their own st Read more of this blog post »
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Published on October 22, 2026 09:40 • Tags: first-responders, honor, humanity, hurricane-katrina, leadership, memoir, new-orleans, police, true-story

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“We’re going to live together. Or we’re going to die together. But we’re going to stay together.”
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“There’s a thin line between civilized society and anarchy, even in American cities.”
― Chad J Perez

“All of us, first responders and the residents who stayed behind, were treading the same water.”
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