The police...there was a time when you could count on the police to save the day, to come to the rescue. Unfortunately this isn't true anymore. The police tend to show up only after the crime has been committed. Rarely are they there to protect you or your family. The show up when it is all over and write reports is about all they do. If your lucky they might catch the culprit. I'm here to tell you that I've had to involve the police on a number of occasions and they have never been of any use to me. Many years ago, my wife had (back then she was my girlfriend) moved to Ft. Lauderdale and she wasn't used to living in the city as she was from smaller towns. She left her purse on the front seat of her car in a K-Mart parking lot. When she returned to the car the window was smashed with her purse gone. The police filed a report but of course never captured the culprit. The report was useful for the insurance claim, that is about it. Another time we lived for a short time in Miami, about 6 months to be exact. One Sunday afternoon we returned home to find our house burglarized cleared of all electronics, DVD's, etc. The police came wrote their reports and looked for fingerprints. Did we ever get our stuff back? Of course not. We already were stressed over the Miami experience and that was the last straw, we got the heck out of there.
So what did I learn from those experiences and from quite a few other incidents involving police? They are useless as a protection force for the average citizen. They are good at cleaning up, filing their reports, etc. Even in cases of murder and rape very rarely do the cases actually get solved unless the criminals were idiots. Those are the bad guys who get caught. Not the smart bad guys, unless the police get a lucky break which is how most cases, that do get solved, are actually solved. It isn't like what you see on CSI or any of the number of other crime TV shows. If they actually used all the equipment and technology it would cost millions to solve each and every case. So what really happens are the the high profile cases get solved but most just slip through the cracks as another unsolved crime.
The police are overworked and underpaid and whats worse is they are mostly used to enforce a bunch of useless laws. In my opinion, police should be going after the bad guys, period! Instead they spend their time making all the politicians and self-interest groups happy by making sure that we wear seat belts, cross the street properly, drive carefully, make sure we don't ingest materials that may or may not be harmful to us, etc. Essentially they have become our parents on steroids to busy telling us what we can and can't do instead of doing the job they were intended for.
So..the reason I bring all this up is to help you realize it is your job to protect and defend yourself and your family. Keep a gun in your house, get a security system, train yourself and family on what to do if something does happen. Ask yourself what will you or the wife do when someone tries to jack you car while you are driving it. What will the kids do if they are bullied walking home from school? What about when someone decides they want in your house to take something that you worked very hard to obtain?
Scenario training is key and knowledge is key. Please don't waste time taking a useless martial art that is all about sport and competition. Street fighters don't care that you are a black belt. There are many stories abound of high level black belts who get pounded by street fighters. Not all training systems are created equals and usually street fighters and dirty fighters win the day. Find a self-defense instructor who teaches how to end an ordeal within a few seconds with whatever means are necessary. When exercising, train for functionality not pretty muscles. Incorporate endurance and strength training that allows you to run if you have to. Train with sandbags, sticks/staffs, kettlebell, and lots of body weight exercises. I recommend you check out DragonDoor.com where you will find many courses on this training. Also, focus on 'close in combat'. Most fights will end up on the ground so grappling and ground combat are king when it comes to surviving a confrontation.
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