2) know your surroundings
3 Use your better judgement
Don't get caught slipping being a victim.
Today we had an hour long presentation given by the local law enforcement. Topic of concern crime prevention. I work in the City of Emeryville where there crime ranking slots them at # 2 per capita. This small urban area is a popular stop off the freeway due to location and some nearby retail attractions. Which leaves it wide open for would-be criminals due to what retails here. I tend to mock the law enforcement here. The city is the size of two ticks fucking big. Which leaves ripe inactive police officers on the prowl for any minor infraction. Drunk in public; Slammer! J-Walking: Fine! Public indecency: Slammer! I got a major ticket for an illegal u-turn once. Where am from (San Francisco, the most lenient county in fucking America if you ask me) this type of illegal driving maneuvering is over looked a city over due to more pertinent issues like um let see....MAJOR CRIME! Bullets & Dope! Not tickets & mall scuffles! Expect the force on your ass within minutes if there’s called in or observed illegal activities. Which leaves me to this presentation and my thoughts on not being a victim.
When you are in familiar and non-familiar areas Be Observant! Especially when in unknown or suspect areas. Don't walk around with the blinders on when looking around can yield clues to a potential seedy area. Some examples of this are if you are driving down a street and there is a liquor store on every corner. This might not be the appropriate time for a pit stop to get that soda or anything else for that matter. If the locals look restless i.e: posted on street corners, high percentage of visible bums & or obvious drug addicts and or activity. Prostitutes! I don't give a fuck, if you hook a left turn and you run smack dab into the yellow brick road of shady prostitutes, guess what you are probably in a seedy area. You happen to exit the freeway and run smack dab into something that looks just like an old wild western production. I suggest you bust a bitch and get out your GPS. Speaking of GPS I call mines the “Google Bitch/Never Lost” navigation system. While my cell phone navigation app is great, one feature i would like to add is a urban feature. I don't know how PC this would be but it would surely be useful. For instance when getting directions you can select an option to “ Avoid urban areas” or when lost in such areas alert you that you are now in an urban area accompanied by its current crime rates, etc.. There has been many of times when I have gotten lost in an unfamiliar hood and only through observation such as some examples aforementioned did i discern i was not in Kansas any more and probably should click my heels several times quickly. With a urban area alert navigation feature it would take the deduction and guessing out of it and let it be known “You just entered the hood bitch”! Click Click!
Sense the urban navigation feature is not available its best to use your better judgement when traveling locally or abroad. I was damn near K.O'd on this presentation because of the basic shit over viewed. This all goes back to how this PD force has shit to do but whittle their thumbs and and doodle.But i digress, i guess common sense aint common sense. We all are not equipped with "Nigga Spidey Senses" either. That's what i call my gut intuition my Nigga Spidey Senses. Sensing danger, rachetness, and anything else that might put me in harms way. My shit is on point! i don't know about anyone else but my N Spidey,s have gotten me out of some tight spots. This all goes back to being observant people. It doesn't take some police percent PowerPoint presentation or a seminar on "How Not to Get Jacked" to prevent from being a victim. If you got two eyes or even one open them muthafuckas up. Get your head out the clouds or the latest status update and pay the fuck attention to your every changing environment. Here's a funny example about environments. I am born and raised in San Francisco, CA. Across the Bay is a not so similar town called Oakland.Just like all major city's of America we have jet, sets, hoods & ghettos. Like most places they are often readily identifiable from observation, a Google search, or the news. Oakland on the other hand can have your hood navigation all fucked. Oakland does not have particular sets or hoods. its literally block to block basis.Trippy, I know. I would rather know I was going to a foreign hood than stumble upon it. But yeah if you happen to be driving in Oakland and your not familiar with area nor observant you may be in for a rude awakening. You could be driving down a block or neighborhood that looks like it came straight out of Mr. Rogers. Manicured lawns, Becky's jogging and walking their little cute toy dogs, all pleasantries. Then you innocently turn a corner to the next block and its like Nightmare on Elm Street. Block monsters, dope heads, hoes and everything else conducive to a project atmosphere. The shit can get real, real quick! With that said all i got to say is use your Spidey's & be observant cause knowing is half the fucking battle.
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