* Free supplemental video training content is also available online.
* https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl08.xls, https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl14.xls
* According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) and a 2015 Department of Justice survey on national crime victimization. https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violence
* When campus and local police investigated the events, they discovered that the man was a serial rapist who had been terrorizing that campus and a couple others in the area for nearly six years. He had been watching her for three weeks. He knew her roommate spent every other night at her boyfriend’s place. He tested their first-floor window and found they often left it unlocked. Investigators found his notes among his possessions.
* Officer Jeter spent six days in a medically induced coma and underwent lengthy facial reconstruction to repair her left eye, left cheek, nose, and part of her jaw. Orozco was eventually arrested and sentenced to sixty years in prison.
* Which is what James Holmes did, killing twelve and injuring seventy during a showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in the 2012 Aurora theater massacre.
* “Man blames his friend for murder,” BBC News, November 16, 2006, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6154234.stm.
* Thankfully, we were able to stop the bleeding from Mike’s leg and get him to a hospital in time to save his life.
* Isn’t it also interesting to consider that, evolutionarily at least, this cannot possibly be how early man would have seen himself. We wouldn’t be here if he had.
* Training to injure is covered in depth in Chapter Nine.
* CERT stands for Correctional Emergency Response Team. It’s the prison version of a SWAT team.
* The Black Guerilla Family is a notorious African-American prison gang founded in the mid-1960s at San Quentin Prison. A Black Guerilla Family member killed Black Panther leader, Huey Newton, on the streets of Oakland, California, in 1989.
* We will talk about gamified violence in Chapter Five.
* “Officer Down: The Marcus Young Incident,” LawOfficer.com, June 2, 2010, lawofficer.com/archive/officer-down-the-marcus-young-incident.
* “Fender-bender hit-run turns fatal in S.F. / Kickbox champ chases down driver, winds up shot to death,” SFGate.com, August 2, 2003, www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fender-bender-hit-run-turns-fatal-in-S-F-2598674.php.
* “Father in Killing at Hockey Rink Is Given Sentence of 6 to 10 Years,” New York Times, January 26, 2002, www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/us/father-in-killing-at-hockey-rink-is-given-sentence-of-6-to-10-years.html.
* The line appears in Howard’s 1933 story, “The Tower of the Elephant.” Howard is most famous for creating the character Conan the Barbarian.
* “Woman’s Defiance Led Mugger to Kill Her, Accomplice Testifies,” New York Times, October 5, 2006, www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/nyregion/05kill.html.
† The Lower East Side is a much different place now than it was when Nicole and her friends were attacked—that’s why you must always be aware of your specific surroundings. You never know when your immediate environment can change around you.
* That said, if you have the money and love large, loyal, long-haired dogs, you could do worse than the Shepherd or the Malinois. Those are the breeds American Special Operations Forces train to go into battle with them. They are exceptional protectors.
* If I deserve any credit, I am proud my training contributed to that thought. A victim does not think they have options. They submit.
* A corpsman is a medical specialist who often works in hospitals while stationed on base and provides on-site medical care to units deployed in the field.
* There is a diagram and full list of targets on the following page, for reference.
* Doctors make up a sizable portion of my client base for several reasons: they are high-status individuals who drive nice cars and wear nice watches; they are often blamed by the families of deceased patients; and they work in hospitals that are often situated in urban areas with elevated crime rates.
* In 2015, 670 people were killed in Tijuana alone; “New group fuels Tijuana’s increased drug violence,” San Diego Union-Tribune, February 13, 2016, www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/sdut-nueva-generacion-cartel-moves-tijuana-2016feb13-story.html.
* Interestingly, it’s the combination of these mental processes and physical practices that is responsible for the sensation of time slowing down in high-stakes, high-stress moments like a fight for your life.
† In prison, a shotcaller is the leader of a gang who makes decisions about the duties, ranks, and punishments of its imprisoned members. Sometimes he is even powerful enough to dictate what happens out on the streets.
* One of the criteria to judge self-protection instructors and their training facilities by is the quality of the other students and their ability to partner you up appropriately.
* This is not unlike the prison inmates from Chapter Five, who practiced stabbing vulnerable areas on a prison guard’s body using broomsticks and chalk outlines on their cell walls.
* Next time you do standing lunges at the gym, try to come out of the bend with any kind of force—it’s virtually impossible.
* The physiological and anatomical terminology of joint movement is a confusing mish-mash. For the sake of simplicity (and sanity) for our students and our readers, we’ve created our own taxonomy that focuses merely on the essence of each movement.