UK -- Police recommend self-defence lessons after pupils admit to feeling fearful of being attacked.
Self-defence lessons should be offered to young girls who live in daily fear of being beaten up, according to police, following a survey of 12 and 13-year-olds in North Wales.
The results, published last week in the report Young People as Victims of Crime, show that girls worry more about becoming victims than boys.
Police claim that young girls' stress is largely unfounded, with pupils more likely to be threatened than attacked.
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Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Hazards at work, 30
As a corruption probe begins in New Zealand prisons, there is evidence an increasing number of guards and their families are living in fear.
New Corrections figures show a record nine prison officers called on police for protection last year.
One family was removed from its home and put into protective custody.
The Corrections Association president says threats to staff are increasing, along with beefed up prison security.
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New Corrections figures show a record nine prison officers called on police for protection last year.
One family was removed from its home and put into protective custody.
The Corrections Association president says threats to staff are increasing, along with beefed up prison security.
Source
Thursday, December 07, 2006
"Panic mode"
It's so easy to slip from healthy dozes of precaution and suspicion, to seeing ghosts everywhere.
Story:
In an example of how Internet rumors can take on a life of their own, suspicions and anxiety quickly filled the void of information after several Southwest Austin residents reported seeing a white van cruising their neighborhoods.
When calls to police yielded no immediate information, one resident e-mailed a bulletin to several of his neighbors and local media outlets that said police hadn't responded to reports of an attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl by several men in a white van with Georgia license plates.
In response to a wave of concern from parents, three principals of area elementary schools put their campuses on lockdown, forbade students to walk home unescorted and sent letters home warning of possible danger.
The all's-clear came Sunday when police reported that several white vans full of door-to-door salesmen from Georgia combed Southwest Austin last week. They were selling magazines.
Child abductions are rare: Of about 797,500 children abducted in a year in the U.S., according to a 2002 Justice Department report, 7.3 percent were taken by someone other than a family member and less than 1 percent, 115 children under 18, were victims of strangers or of people with whom the children were only slightly acquainted.
"Unfortunately, parents are continually fed a diet of scare stories. When confronted with unusual circumstances, they can easily shift into panic mode," said Frank Furedi, a researcher on responses to fear and the author of the book "Paranoid Parenting."
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Story:
In an example of how Internet rumors can take on a life of their own, suspicions and anxiety quickly filled the void of information after several Southwest Austin residents reported seeing a white van cruising their neighborhoods.
When calls to police yielded no immediate information, one resident e-mailed a bulletin to several of his neighbors and local media outlets that said police hadn't responded to reports of an attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl by several men in a white van with Georgia license plates.
In response to a wave of concern from parents, three principals of area elementary schools put their campuses on lockdown, forbade students to walk home unescorted and sent letters home warning of possible danger.
The all's-clear came Sunday when police reported that several white vans full of door-to-door salesmen from Georgia combed Southwest Austin last week. They were selling magazines.
Child abductions are rare: Of about 797,500 children abducted in a year in the U.S., according to a 2002 Justice Department report, 7.3 percent were taken by someone other than a family member and less than 1 percent, 115 children under 18, were victims of strangers or of people with whom the children were only slightly acquainted.
"Unfortunately, parents are continually fed a diet of scare stories. When confronted with unusual circumstances, they can easily shift into panic mode," said Frank Furedi, a researcher on responses to fear and the author of the book "Paranoid Parenting."
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Saturday, December 02, 2006
Roll with it
A Colombian taxi driver got the better of an armed robber by rolling his cab over an embankment in Bucamaramanga -- with the assailant still inside.
The 66-year-old driver suffered a stab wound from the would-be thief, 16, who landed in hospital with multiple fractures, police said.
The driver's wife said her husband's wound was slight, but he feared the thief would kill him and so rolled his hack toward the embankment and jumped to safety.
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The 66-year-old driver suffered a stab wound from the would-be thief, 16, who landed in hospital with multiple fractures, police said.
The driver's wife said her husband's wound was slight, but he feared the thief would kill him and so rolled his hack toward the embankment and jumped to safety.
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Sunday, October 15, 2006
Recipe for success?
I'm not quite sure if this is such a good idea. On the other hand - doing nothing has many times shown to be an even worse idea.
Story:
Burleson, Texas -- Youngsters in a suburban Fort Worth, Texas, school district are being taught not to sit there like good boys and girls with their hands folded if a gunman invades the classroom, but to rush him and hit him with everything they've got -- books, pencils, legs and arms.
"Getting under desks and praying for rescue from professionals is not a recipe for success," said Robin Browne, a major in the British Army reserve and an instructor for Response Options, the company providing the training to the Burleson schools.
That kind of fight-back advice is all but unheard of among schools, and some fear it will get children killed.
But school officials in Burleson said they are drawing on the lessons learned from a string of disasters such as Columbine in 1999 and the Amish schoolhouse attack in Pennsylvania last week.
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Story:
Burleson, Texas -- Youngsters in a suburban Fort Worth, Texas, school district are being taught not to sit there like good boys and girls with their hands folded if a gunman invades the classroom, but to rush him and hit him with everything they've got -- books, pencils, legs and arms.
"Getting under desks and praying for rescue from professionals is not a recipe for success," said Robin Browne, a major in the British Army reserve and an instructor for Response Options, the company providing the training to the Burleson schools.
That kind of fight-back advice is all but unheard of among schools, and some fear it will get children killed.
But school officials in Burleson said they are drawing on the lessons learned from a string of disasters such as Columbine in 1999 and the Amish schoolhouse attack in Pennsylvania last week.
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Monday, August 28, 2006
False reports
This is such a cruel, egotistical, terrible thing to do.
First of all it shows a monumental lack of respect towards all those that are actual victims of sexual crimes.
Then it gives unneeded ammunition to those (few, but very vocal) who argue that "a large number of rape reports are false."
It also stir up fear, uncertainty and anger amongst other residents in the area of the bogus alert. Finally, it puts unnecessary loads of work on the police.
And for what? Because her boyfriend had forgotten their anniversary... I'm at loss for words.
I can understand that a young girl or a teen can make up a story to achieve something, like gaining sympathy, or covering up the fact that she's been out late. But from what I understand this is an adult. Again, I don't know what to say.
Story:
A woman who told police she was grabbed and dragged into the woods while walking in Lake Oswego Tuesday evening, sparking a widespread manhunt, actually made the whole story up, according to police who said she confessed Friday.
Her story changed after ongoing questioning from police who became suspicious when she refused to cooperate with investigators.
The woman allegedly filed a report of kidnapping and attempted rape because her boyfriend had forgotten their anniversary, police said.
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First of all it shows a monumental lack of respect towards all those that are actual victims of sexual crimes.
Then it gives unneeded ammunition to those (few, but very vocal) who argue that "a large number of rape reports are false."
It also stir up fear, uncertainty and anger amongst other residents in the area of the bogus alert. Finally, it puts unnecessary loads of work on the police.
And for what? Because her boyfriend had forgotten their anniversary... I'm at loss for words.
I can understand that a young girl or a teen can make up a story to achieve something, like gaining sympathy, or covering up the fact that she's been out late. But from what I understand this is an adult. Again, I don't know what to say.
Story:
A woman who told police she was grabbed and dragged into the woods while walking in Lake Oswego Tuesday evening, sparking a widespread manhunt, actually made the whole story up, according to police who said she confessed Friday.
Her story changed after ongoing questioning from police who became suspicious when she refused to cooperate with investigators.
The woman allegedly filed a report of kidnapping and attempted rape because her boyfriend had forgotten their anniversary, police said.
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Friday, May 19, 2006
"Now I can say no"
Moscow -- With shaky hands, Sandee Kean wiped tears from her eyes as she got fitted with padding.
"I'm ready," was all she could repeat, barely a whisper. "I'm ready." Seven years ago, she wasn't.
"I was raped in 1999, but didn't know it because I was drugged," the 41-year-old Lake Ariel resident said.
To overcome her fears, to protect her young son and herself, she enrolled in Moscow Police Chief Ivy Brenzel's self-defense class.
"I can’t get that moment back, but at least now I can protect the ones I have left," Ms. Kean said. "At least now I can say no."
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"I'm ready," was all she could repeat, barely a whisper. "I'm ready." Seven years ago, she wasn't.
"I was raped in 1999, but didn't know it because I was drugged," the 41-year-old Lake Ariel resident said.
To overcome her fears, to protect her young son and herself, she enrolled in Moscow Police Chief Ivy Brenzel's self-defense class.
"I can’t get that moment back, but at least now I can protect the ones I have left," Ms. Kean said. "At least now I can say no."
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Monday, April 10, 2006
Please stop!
Could someone please remove these spineless school officials or do we have absolute tolerance for zero tolerance stupidity?
Then do take a good read on what martial arts instructor Pedro Delgado has to say! I can personally attest the effect of it.
Story:
Coral Springs parent Janice Davidow said she spent two years fearing for her 14-year-old son every time he left for school.
She said bullies have shoved her son Troy into a concrete wall, pushed him down stairs, knocked him head first onto the ground and yanked off his backpack, throwing it into the mud.
Troy, who is "skinny" and has mild learning disabilities, was an easy target, said Davidow.
She finally pulled her son out of Sawgrass Middle School in November after a boy strangled him with a piece of clothing and knocked him unconscious when he tried to get away, Davidow said.
"It was a matter of survival, not defense," she said. "Every parent is extremely powerless."
Troy was suspended for fighting back, added Davidow, who has filed two reports with the Coral Springs Police Department.
Martial arts instructor Pedro Delgado, of Sunrise, said until bullying is wiped out in the schools, he has another solution.
"They were cornering him, intimidating him," said Delgado, remembering his son's hard times at Sandpiper Elementary in Sunrise. "I started training him and taking him to karate school and he gained so much confidence nobody bothered him anymore."
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Then do take a good read on what martial arts instructor Pedro Delgado has to say! I can personally attest the effect of it.
Story:
Coral Springs parent Janice Davidow said she spent two years fearing for her 14-year-old son every time he left for school.
She said bullies have shoved her son Troy into a concrete wall, pushed him down stairs, knocked him head first onto the ground and yanked off his backpack, throwing it into the mud.
Troy, who is "skinny" and has mild learning disabilities, was an easy target, said Davidow.
She finally pulled her son out of Sawgrass Middle School in November after a boy strangled him with a piece of clothing and knocked him unconscious when he tried to get away, Davidow said.
"It was a matter of survival, not defense," she said. "Every parent is extremely powerless."
Troy was suspended for fighting back, added Davidow, who has filed two reports with the Coral Springs Police Department.
Martial arts instructor Pedro Delgado, of Sunrise, said until bullying is wiped out in the schools, he has another solution.
"They were cornering him, intimidating him," said Delgado, remembering his son's hard times at Sandpiper Elementary in Sunrise. "I started training him and taking him to karate school and he gained so much confidence nobody bothered him anymore."
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Sunday, April 02, 2006
Private security on the rise
UK: Security companies said last night it was not just the famous who were taking on private patrols to guard their streets, and that within months the service would spread across the UK.
The companies have benefited from the fear-factor generated by high-profile attacks, such as the murder of City financier John Monckton in December 2004 in London's Chelsea. He and his wife were stabbed after opening the door to their attackers. The crime was witnessed by their daughter Isobel, aged nine.
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The companies have benefited from the fear-factor generated by high-profile attacks, such as the murder of City financier John Monckton in December 2004 in London's Chelsea. He and his wife were stabbed after opening the door to their attackers. The crime was witnessed by their daughter Isobel, aged nine.
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