situational awareness.

This morning a idiot chasing pookemon ran straight into the bullbar on the front of my cruiser on the road, I stopped just in time but it still put them on there arse!

 

Each of us needs to remain aware of our surroundings. Observation is a vital skill to surviving under any conditions. Here are a few drills that will help you to sharpen your situational awareness skills.

1. Find and visualize every exit wherever you are.

2. People watch that is look for a person(s) exhibiting unusual behavior(s).

3. Keep track of any vehicles that remain behind you after you make a turn or follow for a long distance.

4. Practice memorizing license plate numbers.

5. Watch for folks who remain in their car(s) in parking areas.

6. Watch for a person(s) who seem to be following you as you walk in malls, stores, etc.

Most important of all – do NOT become distracted and walk like a victor, not a victim. I’m just saying…

 

Man oh man, this phenom royally freaks me out. Eyes superglued to iPhones. I'm no science fiction fan, but let me borrow a phrase: These folk have been assimilated into something as evil as the Borg. Zombies are party-animals compared to these catatonics. At crosswalks I've come WAY too close to squishing these things. Y'know what, I wonder if they'd even know if they were being robbed. I'm from an era wherein humans engaged in human activities with other humans -- people even looked around to scope out their environment. This iPhone morphine is a mental/social disorder.

 

I currently work in a light industrial area with transients and short-term stay 'budget' hotels. Safe enough by day but at night it is most definitely not safe. I'm leaving this job and training a new girl. I tried to explain the concept of situational awareness to her so she could be safer at night when she leaves all alone. She was very dismissive, 'You're crazy', 'You're paranoid', etc. The reality for her is that she is female and African American and statistically a target for the night crawlers. She has seen my 'routine' at night minimizing my exposure from building to car. She knows I carry a knife at the ready (I cannot concealed carry at work)....but... She knows the cameras are not active. She knows the lighting is only half turned on. I have pointed out all the dark corners she needs to be wary of. And yet she continues to park next to a brick structure holding the large trash bins. She also knows that I have reported 3 nightcrawlers ( all men) dumpster-diving to Dallas PD and that DPD NEVER showed up. Before she leaves at night, she smokes a cigarette outside her car because she won't smoke in her car. Smoking kills...Sheeple is she.

 

This is sad just sit in a parking lot and watch. People and their dam phones nobody looks around anymore just walk and text on the phone. In todays age people are easy targets .

 

I don't understand it but women these days seem to feel that as long as they keep a phone stuck to the side of their head that they are safe. They have no awareness at all about anything. I see them all over the road with their phone stuck on their head. Walking into people or into the streets totally unaware of anything that isn't coming from their phone. They won't even put them down when they need to unload their groceries at the check out.

 

Re: "Situational awareness"

The situation is that for urban dwellers, the sh## is currently hitting the fan.

In major cities across the planet urban gangs are taking over the streets. It is not a matter of when the situation is no longer safe in the cities, it is a matter of this having already occurred.

U.S.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/july-fourth-2021-violence

Nearly 100 people were shot across the country during the holiday weekend

A large brawl between as many as 50 adolescents in Atlanta resulted at least one death. Police sought footage of the fight to find leads on the cause of the fight and the death.

A 14-year-old boy died, and police arrested a 17-year-old in possession of two guns, Fox 5 Atlanta reported.

Haiti
https://www.wlrn.org/news/2021-06-1...ving-thousands-of-women-and-children-homeless

Sweden

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, July 1 (Reuters) - Swedish caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Lofven expressed outrage on Thursday over the killing of an on-duty police officer, a rarity in the Nordic country, calling it an "attack on our open society" amid growing concerns over gang violence.

The police officer in his 30s was shot and killed late on Wednesday while on duty in Biskopsgarden, a Gothenburg suburb that has been plagued by gang violence in recent years and where police have had an increased presence.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...fficer-gang-violence-worries-grow-2021-07-01/

Gang violence has been in the spotlight after shootings and explosives attacks that have sometimes killed bystanders, and has become a political battleground, with left and right each seeking to claim the tougher line.

 

Looters' holiday in San Fransisco:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/...ifting-now-seniors-have-no-daniel-greenfield/

https://news.yahoo.com/shoplifting-san-francisco-control-retailers-173347237.html

https://www.nationandstate.com/2021...sco-stores-due-to-out-of-control-shoplifting/

The looting of handbags proves that the motivation is hunger.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/group-das...sco-neiman-marcus-store-after-handbag-robbery

 

https://twitter.com/CPD1617Scanner/status/1411848555522834435

https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/06/...rks-injuries-police-officer-crime-stats-data/

"Chicago police arrested 61 people Sunday night after the group took over the street, danced on cop cars and set off fireworks, among other raucous behavior, according to multiple reports.

"More than 100 people took to the streets and sidewalks in the Chicago area known as the Loop late Sunday, according to Fox 32.

"A police spokesman confirmed to the local outlet that 61 people were arrested, with most being young adults, along with some minors. Charges ranged from battery, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, according to the report."

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/6...ople-swarm-downtown-chicago-cause-disturbance





“'Sunday night was a disaster,' Ald. Brian Hopkins told CBS Chicago. 'We had massive chaos and mayhem downtown. We had guns in backpacks. Guns in pockets. A large number of firearms present.'

"Police Superintendent David Brown and Hopkins said a number of arrests involved teens with guns."
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