- Grouped car parks should be avoided in high-crime areas. If they cannot be avoided, they should be within view of some dwellings; they should be equipped with sturdy gates or tilt doors, and should never be sited near alleyways.
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Self Defense Tips of the Holidays
Park close to the entry or in well lit areas, when shopping.
Self Defense Tips for the Holidays
- Theives work in teams, and notify their gang when you leave the Apple store, or a jewelery store, or carrying expensive items. Then they follow you home, and rip you off the next day.
Self Defense Tips for the Holidays
- Try and do all your shopping. Mutliple trips to the car could target you by theives that are looking for people that leave the Apple store or carrying expensive items.
Self Defense Tips for the Holidays
Don’t keep valuables in sight of a criminal. Put bags in the trunk, take down the GPS device, and hide anything that can be stolen quickly.
Self Defense Tip for the Holidays
Shop in groups, people alone are easy targets in remote parking locations for getting robbed.
Self Defense Tip of the Day
Myth: Rape only happens to young attractive women.
Fact: Rape can and does strike anyone at anytime. Age, social class, ethnic group and has no bearing on the person a rapist chooses to attack. Research data clearly proves that a way a woman dresses and / or acts does not influence the rapists choice of victims. His decision to rape is based on how easily he perceives his target can be intimidated. Rapists are looking for available and vulnerable targets.
Self Defense Tip of the Day
Myth: A man can’t rape his wife.
Fact: Many states now have laws against rape in marriage. The idea that a man can’t rape his wife suggests married women do not have the same right to safety as do unmarried women. Most battered women have experienced some form of sexual abuse within their marriage. It is also known that estranged or ex-spouses sometimes use rape as a form of retaliation.
Self Defense Tip of the Day
Myth: You can tell a rapist by the way he looks.
Fact: Rapists are not physically identifiable. They may appear friendly, normal, and non-threatening. Many are young, married and have children. Rapist types and traits however can be categorized.