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...

The city of Ypsilanti, Michigan installed five security cameras a year ago. Citizens were concerned about big brother watching. Last week a security camera paid off big-time after five girls were assaulted in a neighborhood. The perpetrator got caught because of one of the cameras. You can read the whole story HERE. If there were any skeptics before this happened there are...

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...

Batteries were invented in the late 1800s. Shortly after that a man invented what he called the 'electric prod pole' that was a battery-operated device used to herd his cattle. The product was minimally successful but the military heard about it and saw huge potential as a weapon. Thus the birth of the stun gun. They have come along way since then....

This is a story about a territory in Australia that's reporting that the number of assaults were down the first quarter of this year compared to last year but that the number of robberies was up by almost 20%. Vehicle thefts were up as well. You can read the whole story HERE. One of the best defenses against an assault or even...

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....