I live in a nothin' special, little, lower middle class type neighborhood. Brosometal can tell ya bout it.
BUT my doors are always locked and I am always armed. I have a gun stashed near the front door (and others around the house). My son will not answer the door until he looks over his shoulder and sees me standing there at the ready. He also always has a fire arm within reach.
Paranoid or prudent? I vote prudent.
Paranoid or prudent ?
If you are paranoid and wrong, you are safe with effort and funds tied up in your security.
If you are trusting and wrong you are a victim, possibly a DEAD victim.
Which do you choose ?
(I know the answer here ;D it's a thought for the GENERAL PUBLIC )
If I do not know a person in my neighborhood I openly take their picture. You would be surprized how quickly some people leave when they see a camera. If I do not have a camera handy I use my cell phone to take their picture.
I have been working 2nd shift for about 20 years. Every time I start a new job of course it involves a new route home. I ALWAYS, get stopped once in the first 30 days (usually 2 weeks ) for some BS like "crossing the yellow line".Its rule 101 of good police work, good intel gathering and just staying alive. Know what people are doing, when they do it, and where they do it. Be aware of any anomalies. I learned that a DIA summer camp (yes its real, a one week course for cadets who are considering intel). It sounds simple in retrospect, but most folks don't pay attention. Once you do, it does become ingrained habit. Why aren't the yard workers here? Is that car new? How far is it to my parking space etc.? Its a topic (situational awareness) we've discussed before, but it bares repeating. Which of these things shouldn't be here? You notice that, and you are miles ahead of most folks.
It's a very simple case of the cops doing more or less the same thing. They see an unfamiliar car late at night repeatedly and want to know where it fits in. After that as long as I take that route I pass the same cops at the same times and places most nights and never get stopped again be cause I "belong", I have a place in the routine. I had a Cop in Hayward Ca. tell me so,(though I already understood it )
Its rule 101 of good police work, good intel gathering and just staying alive. Know what people are doing, when they do it, and where they do it. Be aware of any anomalies. I learned that a DIA summer camp (yes its real, a one week course for cadets who are considering intel). It sounds simple in retrospect, but most folks don't pay attention. Once you do, it does become ingrained habit. Why aren't the yard workers here? Is that car new? How far is it to my parking space etc.? Its a topic (situational awareness) we've discussed before, but it bares repeating. Which of these things shouldn't be here? You notice that, and you are miles ahead of most folks.
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In short, Making an opportunity to ask "Who are you ? and why are you here ? "
It actually did not offend me, or inconvenience me.,because I would have been doing the same thing.
Profiling is something that we all do, all the time, every day. I don't have a problem with it, never have.
The title of the thread is "Trust your Instincts", my instinct tells me that one group of people are of more concern than another.
Simple! Where I live, a group of kids of one particular ethnic persuasion or another are going to raise a few eyebrows. I'm sorry if that hurts their feelings.
As long as they aren't fat, slightly beyond middle aged, Scandinavians it don't ;)
FQ ???
On this thread profiling a new car in the area is ok and good, but on the other thread it is bad ???
You can't have it both ways! Is it ok to single out Tom for his situation and not ok in Phoenix, is it bad for both, is it ok for both ???
The best police work is sometimes going to involve acting on hunches, using deception and using profiling.
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Two points
One I wasn't talking about "profiling". I was simply talking about being aware of things that were out of place. this does not equal pulling over every black guy driving through a white neighborhood (or vice versa). Just being aware that something unusual is happening.
Second, there is difference between pulling folks over for driving while Mexican and pulling over a car that's cruising a neigborhood at two am. The difference is reasonable suspicion of individual wrong doing. Nice try M58, but no cigar.
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