Here is a rare video of a woman being attacked by a rapist in New York taken by a homeowner’s surveillance camera. It offers the opportunity to discuss some elements of the attack: The attack happened on a sidewalk in a public place, the very kind of transition area like parking lots and parking [...] Read more »
The Connecticut doctor whose wife and two daughters were brutally raped and murdered in a heinous home invasion is now testifying about his ordeal in the violent encounter in the trial of one of the suspects. The other suspect was convicted of the murders and rapes last year. 2007 crime — 2011 trial. What takes [...] Read more »
Just because the kids who are giving you the hard stare are only 14, it doesn’t mean you should be any less wary of them as potential threats to your safety. Over the years, I’ve documented many shocking examples of young kids engaging in seriously violent attacks (remember the New York City “Wilding” attack in [...] Read more »
There seems to be something insidious about many people’s attitude to the deadly nature of a knife. Perhaps it’s because knives are so utilitarian in our daily lives that we become overfamiliar with them and complacent. We all need to remember the extremely deadly nature of knives. Take, for example, the recent killing rampage by [...] Read more »
Your mindset is the foundation for developing yourself into a “hard target” for self-defense. Interestingly, I’m in the middle of writing a chapter that deals with this subject for the upcoming book, the Women’s Self-Defense Institute’s Survival Guide. I’m going back through some emails and I see something from Greg Holmes on the recent murder [...] Read more »
For a while I’ve been advocating using the word ‘respond’ to an attack instead of the word ‘react’ to an attack. Definitionally, both words are close in meaning. The verb ‘respond’ means to react favorably or, in physiology, to “exhibit some action or effect as if in answer”. The verb ‘react’ means to act in [...] Read more »
More of the details are emerging of the vicious attack on CBS News Correspondent Lara Logan who was assaulted by a mob during the anti-Mubarek protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Although initially reported as a rape, the incident was a savage physical assault from attackers who beat her with fists and flagpoles. It is [...] Read more »
The Barbary Pirates were the scourge of the high seas along the Mediterranean and the Atlantic for hundreds of years. These pirates enslaved more than a million people between 1500 and 1800 and extracted a wealth from the world’s nations that would rather pay tribute than fight back — the newly formed United States [...] Read more »
Thanks to Cindy Coughenour for forwarding this story about a woman attacked in a subway station in full view of a subway clerk and a train conductor. Police were called, but there is no information on when or if they actually responded to the attack. There are a number of lessons that this case [...] Read more »
Apr. 26, 2009 02:26 PM Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. – An 84-year-old man has a black eye, but he still has his car, after fighting off two would-be carjackers. Ted Mazetier said he stopped Wednesday night to help two men with a disabled car when one punched him in the face and demanded his keys. [...] Read more »