The Five Stages of Violent Crime is an internationally recognized system to identify if — and determine when and if — you are being set up for a crime or violence. It is used by police, military and firearms instructors around the world as a training and teaching tool. Also the system is taught internationally in self … [Read more…]
A doctor friend came up with the term ‘Internet Intelligence’ Short version, someone who doesn’t have the scientific, technical or educational background reads something on the internet and says, “I understand this subject.” No, you don’t. Because if you did, you’d know why what you read on the internet is out to lunch. In my … [Read more…]
PROCESS PREDATOR: For the Process Predator the act of violence is the reason itself. The crime is the goal. The rapist, the serial killer, the ritualistic torture murderers are process predators. The Process predator requires time and privacy for what he intends to do. One of the reasons that home invasion crimes are so brutal … [Read more…]
Most, if not all animals have a ritualized combat between males of the same species to safely establish dominance. Snakes coil around each other and wrestle. It can look like mating to the uninitiated. Deer and elk lock antlers and push and fence. Rams slam their horns, reinforced with massive blocks of bone, into each … [Read more…]
The Group Monkey Dance (GMD) is a show of group solidarity. There are two levels, at least. In the lowest level an outsider is discouraged from interfering with group business—it is a way of establishing territory. Families are tight-knit groups. Domestic violence incidents are acts within the group. Sometimes, when the police intervene, both … [Read more…]
Most of the people reading this will be comfortable products of comfortable homes with significant education and socialization. This is the norm in North America, where I happen to be writing. The norm is so powerful and pervasive that it can be very easy to believe that the values of middle-class Americans are universal. They … [Read more…]
If a young Threat brutally beats a foreign tourist in a random explosion of violence… it wasn’t random. It was just a surprise for the onlookers and the victim. In a marginal society, like the criminal subculture, a reputation for violence is a very valuable thing. If people think you are crazy, apt to … [Read more…]
Defending common territory is the hallmark of any group, whether an army, a tribe, or a troop of monkeys. Humans have expanded this idea and symbolized it in that many are willing to fight and die for intangibles – a flag, patriotism, a place in heaven. Just because the territory being defended or invaded is … [Read more…]
“What you think you know … will kill you” – An old survival maxim The above quote is common among safety experts. But it applies in spades to avoiding crime and violence. The problem is, most of what you think you know about crime is probably wrong. Or to quote Will Rogers “It ain’t that people are ignorant, it’s just … [Read more…]