Skyrocketing Violent Crime and Women

Looking at the tail end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007 it is plain to see crime has been soaring across the country. Women’s security issues, which have always been a special concern anyway, have also risen dramatically. Violent crime had been at unprecedented low levels for many years. However, in 2006, crime [...]

Self Defense Tactics For Women- Top 5 Personal Safety Techniques

Don’t take your personal safety for granted. Take charge with these five easy to learn self defense tactics to help keep you safe.   Every day the news is filled with horror stories involving women as victims of violent crime. We worry about ourselves and female friends and relatives. While no one can guarantee your [...]

Empowerment: The Relationship between Women and Martial Arts

Until relatively recently in human history, women were given a typically subordinate role in human culture.  Even today, women face many struggles including lower pay rates and violent crime.  There is still yet a need to empower women, and martial arts can go a long way toward it. On the obvious level, martial arts [...]

Local Violent Crime Increases Nearly 50 Percent

This morning I woke up and began calling local friends and family to make sure they were aware that police had released a sketch of a man wanted in a brutal rape last night. I’m on the phone with my wife reviewing basic safety and self defense, when I get word of a home [...]

Personal Alarms

Violent crime is on the rise in many once-safe communities, and more and more people are finding it necessary to include an extra measure of security to protect themselves and their loved ones from assault. Passing through familiar or unfamiliar neighborhoods, being alone at the office or even just walking across the parking lot [...]

How to Protect yourself and Your Family in These Dangerous Times

How many times have you said or heard this: “Don’t tell me I need any more protection in my home. I lock the doors and windows at night and have a light in my front yard. And, I’m a light sleeper so I’ll hear any noise downstairs…” But, how many times have these same [...]

Domestic Violence, Though Often Unreported, is Pervasive

Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviors perpetrated by one person in a relationship to control the other. Partners may be married or not married; heterosexual, gay, or lesbian; living together, separated or dating. Domestic violence can also occur between siblings, parents and children, and grandparents and grandchildren. However, domestic violence most often occurs [...]

Burglar Alarm & Home Security Systems – Why Do We Need It?

Whether or not you’ve been a victim of crime, the mere thought of an unwanted visitor lurking around your house can make you cringe. Crime is real, and a house gets burglarized daily in the United States on an average of once every 15 seconds! Even the safest neighborhoods aren’t safe from burglars and [...]

Crime Rates and Statistics

Statistics show that crimes and the rate at which they occur is rising each and every day. Crime is not something that will disappear, especially in the society we live in. Even though there are rules, laws and regulations, they don’t prevent random acts of thievery or violence from happening to you or any [...]

Teh Facts of Self Defense

Its amazing how the United States can say that the use of self defense makes a person being attacked even more vulnerable to more acts of violence. According to statistics our government officials state it is better to simply allow the attacker to do what they want, steal what they want, or hurt what [...]

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