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I’m currently working in a high-crime area where I frequently come upon gangs of older teens and young twenty-something’s hanging out in a crowd on the street corner having a good time.

Sometimes that “good time” involves one of them stroking their own ego by hassling someone walking by that “doesn’t belong there”.  Someone like me!

This can be a pretty scary situation when you’re in an unfamiliar area and are faced with the very real possibility of becoming an easy target for street crime.

The best advice is always to be smarter than me and don’t walk around in high crime areas.  But the time may come, no matter where you are, that you find yourself in a situation where you’re going to be walking past a gang, whether real or “wannabe”, and need to know how to react.

While dealing with how to physically defend yourself in a “multiple attacker” situation is too large of a topic to deal with in the same article, here are some tips to dealing with your BEST defense…avoiding the conflict altogether: (more…)