Increased aggro this time of year
Definitely more trouble around this time of year with the significantly larger numbers of drunk people about and, lest we forget, crooks have their Xmas shopping requirements so their nefarious activities rise as well. I’ve spoken to 3 students over the last week who have had to deal with situations either with drunks or people fixing up for street robbery. I’m glad to say they all came out in good shape. Particularly chuffed with one of our newer students who intervened to help a lady who was was being foully abused by 2 drunken idiots on a bus: they started on him and he managed to put one of them in hospital with multiple stitches required after delivering a stomp kick to the face. I know it’s not cool to sound like delighting in somebody getting their face stomped, but in this job you hear about a lot of crap that happens to people so you lose any liberal instincts re crime and punishment.
Interesting, and worrying, thing about nearly all the confrontations that I hear about about is that it takes the good guys a while to get the necessary aggression going to survive the situation. I guess that the fact they do is a testament to the them and the training but I’m still concerned that the bad guys have an advantage because they enter situations in an aggressive frame of mind from the outset. You can’t graft gonads onto a giraffe, as my old karate teacher used to say, and it is tough to turn nice people into sociopaths -albeit temporarily – but we’ll work a lot in 2010 on how to turn on the aggression quickly.
Stewart
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