Police have arrested a man in connection with three assaults on women in the Bronx, two of which happened on the same day. Calvin Presinal, 28, is in custody and charged with rape, assault and strangulation. He is also being charged in connection with an incident on August 5, when he allegedly choked a 21-year-old girl until she passed out. The other...

click for more info Here is an editorial from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania about making college campuses safer. You can read the whole story HERE. "Sexual assault and harassment on college campuses have finally gotten the attention of federal authorities charged with monitoring compliance with Title IX's sex-discrimination prohibition. The U.S. Department of Education has issued guidelines for how schools must respond to sexual...

click for more info Here is a story about how domestic violence shelters pretty much all over the country are at capacity during the recent heat wave. At first that doesn't seem like it should be a contributing factor. But when people get stressed out with high humidity and high temperatures, tempers flare and violence escalates. You can read the whole story...

Statistics show that an inordinate number of assaults and robberies occur in parking lots-specifically mall parking lots and grocery store parking lots. The reason for this may not seem obvious but there is a good reason. Sexual perverts and robbers who do these kinds of assaults prey on women who are distracted coming out of a grocery store or out of a...

click for more info In today's blog post we are doing a product review of the Pepper Blaster II by Kimber. The Pepper Blaster II fires two shots of pepper spray up to 90 miles an hour, which eliminates the possibility of blowback even in gale force winds. It is the only pepper spray that we know of that is equally effective...

Here's a story about two men who were assaulted in a parking lot by two males. They incurred minor injuries and police are still looking for the suspects. You can read the whole story HERE. You may think that parking lots are relatively safe. WRONG! Parking lots are one of the top two or three places where assaults happen. Women are usually...