CRIME PREVENTION SECTION
http://www.lorispolice.com/loris_police_department_crime_pr.htm

ROBBERY AND ATM SAFETY

Should you be confronted by a robber — Remain calm — Do not resist — Give up your money, jewelry, etc. — Cooperate with the robber — give him time to get away — call the police and report the incident

• Keep your head. Stay as calm as possible, think rationally and evaluate your resources and options.
• Keep assessing your situation as it is happening. If one strategy does not work, try another. Possible options are negotiating, stalling for time, distracting the assailant, and fleeing to a safe place.

To a certain extent there is validity in the statement above: Keep your head (stay as calm as possible, think rationally and evaluate your resources and options) but the bottom line here is the the fact that over 2 1/2 million times a year 98% of the crimes stopped are with the legal brandishment of a weapon. This stops the crimes dead in their tracks. The other 2% the bad guys go out in body bags. NRA-ILA (National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative Action) and Dave Kopel.

Some facts which would help the general population, save people's lives, and keep them out of the courts because of reprisal from anti-gun district attorney's:

1. When in the streets, and carrying deadly force protection (gun), always have a first line of defense that is not considered deadly force:
Kubotan on a key ring- http://www.selfdefenseproducts.com/kub.htm). This allows you to say that to the courts you did not have to go for deadly physical force first, but it became clear that the situation became life threatening thereby you had to initiate the proper response (but there was an alternative).

2. In the home or on the streets always carry one or two rounds that are not for deadly physical force such as rubber bullets. So an anti-gun lawyer or judge cannot say that you are a psycho and just wanted to kill. You can prove a less lethal force was used as a deterrent first.

3. Offer safety classes for weapons use and the when's, wherefore's, and why's should be explained.

These were only a few examples of how to keep the citizenry safe and prepared.

WHEN ATTACKED, PASSIVE BEHAVIOR IS THE SAFEST APPROACH

The Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey reports that the probability of serious injury from an attack is 2.5 times greater for women offering no resistance than for women resisting with a gun. Men also benefit from using a gun, but the benefits are smaller: offering no resistance is 1.4 times more likely to result in serious injury than resisting with a gun.

When confronted by a criminal, research has shown that the safest response is for the victim to display his own firearm. In fact, a study by Prof. Gary Kleck Ph.D. from the School of Criminology, Florida State University, showed robbery victims who defended themselves with a gun suffered lower rates of injury than did those who resisted without a gun, or even those who did not resist at all and instead complied with the violent criminal's demands. What this means is, you run the greatest risk of being injured when confronted by a violent criminal if you are unarmed.

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DO YOU NEED A WEAPON?

• Beware of the false security mace, pepper spray, electronic stun guns or handguns may give you. Weapons that are intended to hurt an assailant are often taken away and used against you.

The information "are often taken away" was taken from a slanted biased study in the New England Journal of Medicine (a known and proven anti-rights anti-gun organization). Not only did they bias the results but they then published it. It has been proven a farce the day it hit the streets. The red press and others who are not aware continually use this "study" to push their anti-gun views and who suffers-the unknowing and unprotected public!

"Statistics are often quoted to argue that if you own a gun it's more likely to be used to harm you -- by a family member or by an intruder -- than to be used by you to protect yourself. For example, a widely quoted study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that gun owners were 2.7 times at risk of being murdered as those without guns. But even the study's author admitted that this doesn't prove that guns cause their owners to be murdered. After all, people who are already at risk of being murdered are more likely to get guns for self-protection.

The New England study also ignored all of the cases in which a gun in the house was used defensively without causing a fatality. Such cases account for 99% of all defensive uses of a gun. When this data is taken into account, you find you are safer with a gun in the house.

Other data supports this finding. Between 1965 and 1985, the stock of privately owned handguns has increased rapidly -- by over 1 million a year. But the rates of spousal homicide fell during the same period.

What about gun accidents? As nationally syndicated columnist Samuel Francis explained in a Washington Times article, there are 220 million guns in the country. Your chance of dying from accidental discharge of any one of these is extremely remote (one chance in 200,000). In fact, you are 29 times more likely to die from an automobile accident than from the accidental discharge of a gun.

As long as you are a law-abiding, responsible person, owning a gun does not endanger you and could save your life in an emergency."

This information has been taken from: David Kopel, Independence Institute-Second Amendment Project by Dave Kopel and Jarret http://www.davekopel.org/2A/Mags/WillYouBeSafer.htm

There Are No Gun-Free, Safe Zones-"but the more than 2 million times each year that Americans use guns defensively are never discussed – even though this is five times as often as the 450,000 times that guns are used to commit crimes over the last couple of years. Seldom do cases make the news where public shootings are stopped or mothers use guns to prevent their children from being kidnapped. Few would know that a third of the public school shootings were stopped by citizens with guns before uniformed police could arrive."

Dr. John Lott Jr. renown national and international crime analysis statistician and economics expert http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/lott3.html

Here is just one very small example again to illustrate my point:
But while weapons permits are rising in Florida, violent crime is dropping. From 1996 to 2003, the rate of murder, forcible sex offenses, robbery and aggravated assault in the state decreased 30.7 percent, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Florida's declining rate is in line with a trend that has seen the nation's violent crime rate drop 25 percent over the same period.(over 5.7% over the national average)
Palm Beach Post Newspaper 06/04/05
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/accent/content/accent/epaper/2005/06/04/a6d_gun_story_0604.html
Please let me make a point here-this is without the ordinances or the Castle Doctrine just with the proliferation of weaponry in citizen's hands.

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MISSION STATEMENT

http://www.lorispolice.com/LPDMission.htm

The employees of the Loris Police Department will be committed to enhancing the quality of life in our city by enforcing laws, solving problems, building partnerships and protecting individual rights.

Police cannot protect or espouse to protect individual rights. It is incorrect. http://publicrights.org/Kennesaw/PoliceResponsibility.html

Police have no legal duty to respond and prevent crime or protect the victim. NOR SHOULD THEY HAVE TO!! There have BEEN OVER 10 various supreme and state court cases the individual has never won. Notably, the Supreme Court STATED about the responsibility of police for the security of your family and loved ones is "You, and only you, are responsible for your security and the security of your family and loved ones. That was the essence of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in the early 1980's when they ruled that the police do not have a duty to protect you as an individual, but to protect society as a whole."

"It is well-settled fact of American law that the police have no legal duty to protect any individual citizen from crime, even if the citizen has received death threats and the police have negligently failed to provide protection."

Dr. Lott: is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and had an extensive career in academia before joining AEI. He received his doctorate in economics at UCLA, and in the years thereafter taught at a great many prestigious institutions, such as The Wharton School (Penn), Yale, Cornell, the University of Chicago, Rice, and UCLA.

Dr. John Lott did a longitudinal study (the only one of its kind in the United States), analyzing crime in every county in the United States (over 50,000 of them), over a 20-year period of time. The study was held to a significant factor of 1%.

This study shows that, the threat of citizens that are armed (or purported to be armed-called the Umbrella Theory), decrease crime substantially (More Guns Less Crime by Dr. John Lott). If the citizens send out out a clear message to the criminal element: Don't be coming to our town or county-take your criminal activities somewhere else. Criminals are like water they seek the path of less resistance. Criminals want to be able to RPB (rape, pillage, and burn) but they do not want to die in doing it. Study after study has been done and the worst nightmare to the criminal, straight from the criminal's mouths is: "they have no problem going against a policeman that is armed (because they have certain rules to follow) but they don't want to meet an armed citizen because they (the bad buys) stand a high probability of dying".

Dave Kopel: Former Assistant Attorney General, State of Colorado. Hazardous and solid waste enforcement. University of Michigan Law School, J.D. magna cum laude. Contributing Editor, Michigan Law Review. Brown University, B.A. in History with Highest Honors. National Geographic Society Prize for best History thesis. State of Arizona, concealed handgun license instructor. NRA-certified instructor for Pistol and for Personal Protection. NRA-qualified Distinguished Expert rating for Handgun. Memberships: Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (Life member), American Civil Liberties Union, American Society of Criminology, National Council of Editorial Writers, National Rifle Association (Benefactor member), National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Society of Christian Philosophers.

Dr. Gary Kleck: is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. His research centers on violence and crime control with special focus on gun control and crime deterrence. Dr. Kleck is the author of Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America (Aldine de Gruyter, 1991), and Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control (Aldine de Gruyter, 1997). He is also a contributor to the major sociology journals, and in 1993 Dr. Kleck was the winner of the Michael J. Hindelang Award of the American Society of Criminology, for the book which made "the most outstanding contribution to criminology" in the preceding three years (for Point Blank).