Here's a story about how deputy police commissioner Fox in Philadelphia is leading the charge against domestic violence in that city. Of course domestic violence is a huge problem nationwide but usually doesn't get much attention for a variety of reasons. And it is one of the most under reported crimes in the country. You can read the whole story HERE. The...

This is a story about the University of Montana regents who recently approved a new sexual assault policy for their campus. The campus recently is under a federal investigation into the way the city and the university handle several sexual assaults. Of course you can read the rest of the story HERE. The story goes on to say that "The U.S. Justice...

This is a story about how a new program in a community in Wisconsin is helping domestic violence victims. Domestic violence is the number one crime in the country according to some officials and yet it often goes unreported for a variety of reasons-fear being the number one reason. You can read the whole story HERE. If women know or suspect that...

This is an article by the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault on a bill to end domestic violence and sexual assault. DUH! Is there anybody in the world who isn't against this? It's nice that they're passing a bill about this but why don't they actually do something to stop the predators. Women are consistently the targets of violence in 90% of...

Here is some useful information on how to determine the relative hotness of the pepper spray. For years the general hotness rating was called the Scoville heat unit or SHU. This is common measure of hotness of anything. A habanero pepper, for example, has a SHU of 500,000. Sounds like a lot doesn't it? That is one of the hottest peppers going....

Here's an article we published recently about the choices available for nonlethal personal defense. You can read the whole article HERE. The article talks about the three basic self-defense items-stun devices, pepper sprays and alarms-available the marketplace today with a little information about tasers which we treat is a subset of stun devices. It talks about what the self defense items can...