Focus:Police violence/protecting from

In this page we'll collect various ideas and suggestions that we hope may aid you in developing your own long-term protection strategy. Please contribute!

General advices

• Try to stay healthy and physically fit. Avoid substance abuses.
• If possible, avoid areas with concentration of police force.
• Even if you dislike society as it is, try to maintain a large circle of similar-minded friends and acquaintances
• Learn martial arts for self-defence
  • especially conditioning exercises for ligaments and bones will lessen the consequences of possible aggressions

Interacting with officers...

• Try not to be alone or in enclosed places.
• Use concealed audio or video recording if possible.
• Make phone calls or at least pretend that you have been recently in contact with someone.
• Try to appear friendly and at least pretend to respect the officers.

In case of verbal violence

• Verbal abuse is often used to escalate a conflict; refuse to play "their game", remain rational

In case of physical aggression...

• You should quickly choose your defence strategy depending on circumstances:
  1. playing dead: this is a natural defence system; you pretend to be helpless, unconscious or dead; however try to stay ready to flee at the first opportunity
  2. screaming: this is also a natural defence strategy but often not a good idea, it may elicit more violence
  3. attacking back: an extreme resort
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After an aggression...

• report your experience, in any appropriate way you can find (your blog, journalist friend, local newspaper)
• you may develop post-traumatic stress disorder; remember that there are always comrades out there willing to aid you and with which you can share your experience: this is quite possibly the best therapy

During demonstrations or public gatherings...

• Always consider whether you should join a demonstration (pro and cons), try to balance personal risks and social benefits.
• During a pacific or pacifist gathering, quickly isolate and dissociate from violent groups. Such groups often have infiltrators.
• Always keep a safe emergency-escape path. Do not station in shady areas, dead street ends, or bridges.
• Bring first-aid kits.
• Photos and videos are useful, document what is happening.
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Final advice

Stop supporting the State. Someday the State and its violence may cease to exist.