In last week’s article we started to look at a five-step grooming process that certain predatory individuals use. The five steps are: 1) target selection, 2) trust building, 3) isolation, 4) desensitization, and 5) exploitation. The first part looked at the target selection, and trust building phases/stages/component of the grooming process whilst this article will look at the last three....(Click Here To Read The Article)
I live in Massachusetts, where a state committee responded favorably to a bill (and referred it to the committee on Senate Rules, earlier this year) that aimed to end the twice-a-year clock change and move the state to permanent Atlantic Standard Time (effectively year-round daylight savings time). For many people, the most noticeable consequence of the clocks changing (this year it’s November the 1st, 2026) is that it suddenly becomes dark much earlier in the evening. A journey home from work t...(Click Here To Read The Article)
Since 2010, my school has been running a free women’s self-defense program that has an emphasis on self-protection i.e., teaching women how to predict, prevent and avoid violence not because it’s their responsibility to have to deal with violence, including sexual violence and rape, but because all of the odds concerning violence are stacked heavily against them. Whilst I agree with the sentiment, that men should just stop raping women, I’ve worked in this industry, and with survivors, long enou...(Click Here To Read The Article)
When I first moved to the US, I was approached by a club owner, who was looking to improve his security team’s skills in control and restraint. His club had been involved in several recent lawsuits with patrons who had been thrown out, claiming excessive use of force. From my personal experience, these cases often don’t actually involve excessive force but individuals who felt embarrassed, humiliated and powerless at being removed from a club by security. When I first started working door securi...(Click Here To Read The Article)
click here to read) I talked about suspicions and abnormalities, and that things which might appear out of place don't necessarily indicate a threat and/or the presence of harmful intent etc. In this article I want to look at the relationship between when a suspicion indicates a threat/danger exists, and when it doesn't. For the sake of this article, it's worth quickly re-iterating what should cause us to be suspicious , whether that's a person, a place, or an object etc. This means we have to ...(Click Here To Read The Article)
When it comes to personal safety and security it’s very easy to believe that we know what something is, but we try to articulate it, we find that we lack a clear definition, which is where having the correct and appropriate terminology can be extremely helpful. One of the terms/definitions where this becomes apparent is that of “risk”, a term which is often equated with “likelihood”, though it is somewhat more complex, and the two are not synonymous. It is not my intention to discuss risk in thi...(Click Here To Read The Article)