Personal Safety

Personal Safety: Staying Safe When Out and About

Unlike the times when you are at home, where you have at least some degree of protection and control over circumstances, when you are about town, you never know what lies around the corner. In these times, it seems as if violent crime such as carjacking, robberies, sexual assaults, abductions, group swarmings, subway crimes, and even terrorism can happen in any part of town, in any neighborhood.

Key to preventing becoming a victim of such crimes, is developing a mindset based on awareness and avoidance. The best thing one can do to stay out of potentially dangerous situations, and live safely, is to have the awareness to avoid such dangers in the first place. While there is liklely a fine line between hypervigilance and paranoia, exactly where it lies in your specific situation is something that you, and only you, can determine for yourself. All of us live in different communities and environments, and each and everyone of them come with their own particular types of risks.

In this section are an assortment of simple tips on which to build upon, creating a mindset of awareness of potentially dangerous or harmful situations that, hopefully, you will avoid.

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