Unfortunately, everyone can become a victim of crime. Even if you are very careful and avoid criminogenic zones, you are not immune from attacks. Confidence that you can cope with this will help you to remain calm and, possibly, will preserve not only your health or even your life.
Instruction manual
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Remember that most crimes are committed for material gain. Most often, the attacker wants to get your money, bank cards and other valuables and to flee the scene as soon as possible. Do everything that it requires of you, quickly and without bickering. The faster the robbery ends, the faster you will be safe. There are no such things that are worth your health, remember this. None of the most expensive earrings or watches can replace your lung, eye or kidneys. And even more so, there is no object comparable to your or someone else's life.
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Do not face the robber. If there is no disguise on the attacker, he may be afraid that you will remember him and then recognize him, he may be nervous, and your direct look will only annoy him. Do not raise your eyes above his torso. At the same time, try to remember the characteristic features - weight, height, what he is dressed in, whether he has an emphasis, whether he has the right speech. If you focus on the signs of the robber, this will help you stay calm and keep your mind occupied with something. The eyes that you throw at him should be quick and gradually, never meet his eyes.
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Talk to the attacker politely and a little guilty, as if he is your best customer and upset by the purchase or contract. Do not take a condescending tone, do not be offended by insults, be higher than them, do not react to provocations, remember that the offender “warms up” himself, and do not give him a reason to switch to direct violence.
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Fight the urge to fight or run. Your resistance or flight may cause the attacker to go on to a new degree of aggression, and he may lose control of himself. Switch to active resistance only when you or those who are with you are truly at risk of physical abuse. If you have authorized protective equipment - a stun gun, pepper spray and the like - get them out only when you are completely sure that you are able to quickly and without hesitate to apply them. Raise the alarm only when you are convinced that you are not in danger. If you call for help, and the offender panics, this can lead to the fact that he will use physical force or weapons.
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If you were attacked indoors, do not stop the robber from leaving him. No need to try to detain the thief, it is better to be safe faster and call law enforcement. Remember that actors fighting movie gangsters have understudies, but you don’t.