 | Here Are Some Facts About Crime... Crime is on the increase in most large U.S. cities. It is also becoming more prevalent in small communities. Thinking that it can only happen to someone else and doing nothing to prepare yourself or take precautionary measures in case makes you the perfect victim criminals are looking for. Making yourself less of a target is simpler than you might think. Defense sprays like pepper spray or mace spray and weapons like air tasers and stun guns, when properly used can significantly improve your chances of escaping or minimizing dangerous situations involving attackers and assailants. Pepper spray, made with made with Oleoresin Capsicum (hence the name OC pepper spray ), is probably the most basic personal protection product. We recommend that you look here for self defense products that we know to be of very good quality and sold through a reputable company. The "safeguards" and tips available to you here will help protect you - and may even save your life! |
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Protecting Yourself From Pickpockets and Purse Snatchers |
Guarding Against Purse Snatchers Purse snatchers and pickpockets are looking for the easiest targets. Taking these tips will help you become much more difficult a target.
Purse snatching is a crime of opportunity. You can eliminate that opportunity. Every female carrying a purse is a potential target. Senior citizens are especially susceptible to these criminals since they may not be readily able to defend themselves and pursue their assailants. How to Outsmart The Purse Snatcher When carrying a purse, women should have only 3 or 4 one dollar bills placed inside. Credit cards, currency, driver's license, keys and jewelry should be carried in a coat or sweater pocket, or concealed on your person to reduce the opportunity of large losses. If you carry a purse, |
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Over the last 2 years, four women have been killed in Daytona Beach. Evidence, including DNA recovered from the victims, linked the cases to one killer.
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LaBarre Case Updates
Two more updates have come down this week regarding the pending sanity trial of Sheila LaBarre. She has already pleaded guilty by reason of insanity to the murders of Kenneth Countie and Micheal Deloge, so all that remains is for a jury to decide if she was insane at the time of the two attacks.
Judge [...]
Mother of Drowned Children To Use Insanity
Court Documents released in Nassau County show that Leatrice Brewer, the woman who confessed to drowning her three children and laying them out on a bed together before calling police, will use an insanity defense.
The fathers of the children told investigators they had filed numerous reports with authorities regarding her erratic and sometimes threatening actions. [...]
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