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Let’s Agree To De-Stress This Holiday Season
When should you intervene in an assault
5 rules to stay safe in your car
The Portland PD are warning that, over the past few months, a mentally disturbed man has been trying to enter cars while drivers have been stopped at an intersection. This is a scary situation for sure, and it happened recently to a friend of mine. I know people who have experienced this in other cities […]
5 Tips for fun in the sun with your kids
Stay safe from crime on vacation
Summertime is here, and many Maine families will be travelling. Vacation time is a time to relax, unwind, and shake off our hard winter. However, with travel, comes certain increased risks of crime. I’ve previously written about keeping your home safe while you’re away. Today, I’ve compiled a few helpful tips to try to keep […]
Study: women trained in self-defense far less likely to be sexually assaulted
There’s a new study out of Canada showing that college students who underwent a 12 hour sexual assault resistance training were far less likely to to be assaulted. More telling, is that they were less likely to be the victims of attempted assault. Self-defense training works This study jives with earlier research by the self-defense instruction […]