urban survival poll

Out of 55 women polled when asked the question "What do you feel you need?" a knife? a gun? Pepper spray or mace? Street Awareness?

2% -2 felt they needed a knife

7% - 7 felt they needed a gun

18% -15 said they needed pepper spray or mace

56% -31 answered that they needed Street Awareness

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Elizabeth Smart

I am very happy that Elizabeth Smart was found 9 months after being kidnapped from her home. I am very happy that she has managed to move on with her life after such a traumatic experience. I am very happy for her.
In fact the whole Elizabeth Smart thing convinces me that the smartest thing I ever did was create the F.A.S.T. (Female alternative street tactics) program, teaching woman all they should know about remaining safe, and protecting herself from predators, kidnappers, molesters, and more.
When I created the F.A.S.T. program in 1983 the intention was to teach women how not to get kidnapped, how not to get assaulted, how not to be molested.
Had the Smart family enrolled Elizabeth Smart in my program she would've known what to do in the event someone was trying to take her away, and maybe she would've never been kidnapped. Her sister who was in the same room watched and didn't know what to do. How safe was their home? Did they know anything about security? Did the Smarts teach their children about strangers, and what to do in the event something would happen? Elizabeth Smart was with her kidnappers for 9 months, and it's not like she escaped. She was found. I wonder how many opportunities she had for escape. She couldn't escape because she was not prepared for something like this. Prepartation is the "KEY".
The F.A.S.T. program prepares a woman for all kinds of attacks. Not only giving women street smarts, but also giving them quick and efficient self defense moves that can possibly save their lives.

URBAN SURVIVAL

Out of 63 women polled by the F.A.S.T. (FEMALE ALTERNATIVE STREET TACTICS)
23.81% (16) said they had been raped (this included date rape)
23.81% (16) said they have been mugged
34.92% (22) said they have been molested
17.46% (11) said they have been assaulted

Happy New Year

I know that this is a new year, and we would all like to think that all the bad and dangerous things that can happen to children will no longer happen. While we are busy making new years resolutions and overwhelming ourselves in trying to keep those same ones, the predators, kidnappers and child abusers are busy finding new ways to victimize our children, and they are busy devising ways to take away our children’s innocence. We must keep in mind that there is much to watch out for. We no longer have just Bullies, now we also have Cyber bullies. It is not only the molester that we are worried about; we now have to be concerned with human sex slave rings, and child pornography, and human trafficking. Sadly we learned that we cannot even trust police officers as 2007 sadly showed us, down to the last week when an N.Y.P.D Officer was arrested for the child abuse of a young girl.
In the last week of the year we heard of drive by shootings that hit innocent by standers who just so happened to be a child. We heard of teenage boys going to another boy’s house to shoot him, and instead shot his 11 year old brother in his chest when he opened the door.
People do not fall asleep. Our children are being targeted in every way imaginable, and the only places they are safe in are in the confines of their own home, and guess what? Even at home they have to be told not to open doors without first finding out who it really is at the door.