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(Updated)Is your Stalker Real or Imagined?

There are 7.5 million people stalked every year. Has your stalker acted out in a course of conduct directed at you that would cause you to feel fear and to be unsafe? Is your stalker someone you know, or you do not know but has consistently been following you, calling or sending you letters, emails even gifts or flowers? Signs of a Stalker: Are You Being Followed? Those occurrences constitute sufficient evidence to establish you are being stalked. You should try to document every incident and sighting of your stalker, including the location, the date and time of confrontation or observance. Try to take a photo of your stalker if he/she is unknown to you. The first action you should take is to call 911 immediately. Victims of Crimes including Stalking published this helpful brochure; please take a few minutes to read it. More often than not, your stalker is someone you know. What is a stalker? Source: Pinterest Perhaps an ex-boyfriend, girlfriend or someone you shared a short or long term relationship with, a fiancé, an ex-husband or wife, a co-worker, a next-door neighbor, someone you met online. Alternatively, a person you ran into numerous times who lives in your building, or at a neighborhood market, perhaps a boutique thus eliminating the possibility of coincidence. Celebrities and others who are in the public view such as TV newscasters, sports announcers, athletes are often victims of stalkers. “One in eight American women will get stalked in her lifetime,” says stalking consultant psychiatrist Dr. Park Dietz. “But for a female news anchor, it is virtually a certainty. At any given time, she might be stalked by several at once and not even know about it.” There have been numerous studies of stalkers by psychiatrists all over the world all of whom concluded that stalkers have one form or another of a mental disorder which should not be your concern. You are not required to figure out your stalker’s mental illness. What to do if nobody listens to you? You may have shared your concerns with friends or family, and they responded by saying that you are hypersensitive. Those responses are quite common, but you do not and should not experience this alone. Stalking is a serious crime that can cause depression and hopelessness. While victims should always turn to the police first for assistance, you may be disappointed. To understand what to do and whom to call. there are many organizations that help stalking victims.  Here is additional information with regard to Cyber Stalking from our friends in England According to Dr. Doris Hall, an expert on criminology at California State University at Bakersfield emphasizes the importance of taking any stalking behavior seriously and dealing with it aggressively from the outset. ”If someone’s behavior seems out of line if it is making you uncomfortable, something is up,” she said. ”You have a better chance of putting a stop to it if you do not give it a chance to accelerate.’‘ CUT OFF ALL CONTACT — Dr. Hall compared stalkers with ”naughty third graders.” Dr. Hall recommends firmness: ”Once and only once, tell the person you want nothing to do with him/her. Don’t try to be nice; it can only work against you.” How to protect yourself from stalkers? Should you become frustrated due to the lack of immediate law enforcement action while your stalker appears to be accelerating.  You should call a private investigator or bodyguard who will provide you with a personal protection specialist and at your request conduct an extensive background investigation on the stalker to determine if the stalker has prior criminal convictions, restraining orders or may have been committed to a mental hospital. On the other hand, if you cannot provide any evidence of the stalker’s contact such as any written or verbal communication from the stalker, law enforcement will be unable to help you after they conclude their interview with you. To understand this issue in more detail, we suggest you read this article recently published by the New York Times.

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Protect Yourself from Stalker: The Possible Ways

Many Stalking victims fear that they are unable to protect themselves or know how to stop their stalker. Even though stalking is a criminal offense in many states across America, there are legal guidelines that must be met for law enforcement to proceed with an arrest warrant and to prosecute a stalker. A victim who is unable to provide evidence that they are a victim of a stalker may be unable to obtain the help of law enforcement. What evidence does it take you may ask? Here are some examples: An actual physical and possibly harmful event took place. Heinous emails that contain criminal threats. Threatening text messages containing criminal threats. Voicemails threating to kill rape or mutilate you, a victim. That list qualifies as actual criminal conduct and criminal threats which are prosecutable. If a person alleges that their neighbors are stalking them, or someone is listening in on their cell or landline calls and that their computer was hacked, but are unable to prove those assertions, law enforcement will not investigate their allegations due to the alleged victim’s failure to provide any evidence. More often than not, people who claim those things are happening but have no proof usually require medical assistance rather than law enforcement. HERE IS A LIST OF THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE Surveillance Investigations Civil and Criminal Investigations One out of every 12 women will end up a victim of stalking in their lifetime. Stalking victims with actual evidence should be extremely proactive and contact law enforcement immediately. Law enforcement will be dynamic to a degree but they cannot offer you twenty-four protection, nor can they keep your stalker under surveillance for twenty-four hours.  A private investigator that specializes in stalker investigations services is someone that can provide you with twenty-four-hour surveillance and protection. You would be wise to contact a private detective if their fee is affordable for you. To act nonchalant about being stalked and not taking it seriously is seriously wrong and very dangerous. Anyone who is stalked and thinks their stalker is not capable of harming them or worse yet, that their stalker is “harmless” is making a fatal mistake. Numerous studies have shown that stalking is associated with various forms of violence such as rape, abduction, and murder. If in fact you are being stalked and you are in a position to identify your stalker that goes a long way in offering protection for you. Many stalking victims have reported that their stalking lasted two or more years and some victims were forced to take a leave of absence from their job because their stalker knew where they worked.   Stalking has no gender barriers, and the majority of stalkers are former significant others. Strangers stalk very few victims, but it does happen for reasons unknown to the victim unless the stalker identifies their obsession to the victim. Celebrities are often the obsession of a deranged individual who goes forth stalking their passion.   Has Your Stalker Done Any of This to You Follow you constantly Contacted you either by phone, text’s or emails Came to your place of employment Came to your home and asked to go inside Stole your personal property Spread rumors about you to friends and family Sent you unwanted gifts Posted photos of you online Threaten to harm or kill anyone you care about Physically or sexually assaulted you What you can do to protect yourself from stalker Obtaining evidence is your primary objective. If your stalker is following you go into selfie mode on your cell phone and film what is happening behind you. Ask a friend or even a stranger who works in a store to help you to take video of the person following you on their cell phone and then go back to that person later and have them send you their video clip. Have a tape recorder next to your landline phone or record the caller on your cell phone. Save all texts and emails. Take down the license plate number of the person following you but be sure it is the same car, same plate number, and the same person. Guaranteed it will not be several automobiles or a gang of people because there is no such thing as gang stalking. Real stalkers work alone. Rule number one; never reply to a threatening or irritating message because once you do that, you encourage the stalker to accelerate their vicious activity. Private Investigators & Bodyguards If you feel scared, threatened or vulnerable about your safety, hiring the right, experienced private detective and personal bodyguard will offer you the protection you need as they will know how to neutralize and contain your stalker  Where You Can Obtain Help Do not doubt yourself or think it might be your imagination that someone is stalking you. With evidence in hand do not try to minimize your stalker’s behavior. Whenever you feel unsafe, you should immediately seek help from your local police department. At the community level, many organizations provide support groups or domestic violence shelters that can offer services like a safe place to stay, counseling, court accompaniment and advocacy. These are part of the police department or prosecutor’s office and can provide many of the above services should the victim bring charges against the stalker.

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(Updated)How Many Of Your Social Media Friends Have A Key To Your Home?

For those who enjoy posting on Social Media, ask yourself these questions: Have you posted information about where you live,  the names of your children and pets and where you work? Have you posted information about the party you are going to this weekend? What about when your getaway vacation starts or your plans with your children tomorrow? If you posted any of these examples, you need to be aware that you may have provided information that is extremely helpful to hundreds of potential burglars or worse yet, kidnappers. You might as well have posted where you hide that extra key to your home, your social security number and your bank account number on Facebook or Twitter. Try to imagine arriving home to find it in shambles, draws opened; nightstands ransacked, closets torn apart looking like a tornado struck and everything of value taken. You are shocked, terrified and wondering who did this. How did a burglar know when to break-in?  Suddenly panic hits “how can I ever replace everything stolen from me?” When the police arrive, they ask whom you might suspect. Could it be someone you know quite well or casually? Then they will inquire if you are active on Social Media. Assuming you are active; you will soon discover that your list of suspects catapulted into the hundreds. Social media enthusiasts love sharing their life experiences with family, friends and often with anyone who “Friend’s” them. By doing so, they invite virtual strangers into their lives in ways they cannot begin to imagine. Protect Your Personal Information & Property From Social Media Social media enthusiasts need to understand that the more information they provide about themselves on social media, the more likely they will become a target of stalkers, burglars, and kidnappers. Criminals use the information about you and your family to plan their break-in or worse yet, a kidnapping. You must take responsibility for your actions if you continue to expose yourself and your family by posting your whereabouts and plans for the future. You should enjoy your social media and interaction with your friends and family without revealing a timetable for future plans. It is a lot safer to post about the good time you had after the trip, or the event is over. Police are usually overwhelmed with investigations of home invasions and burglaries many of which are associated with social media, while others could be random acts or inside jobs. We are confident you do not want to be a burglary victim who is compelled to wait weeks or months for an overwhelmed police department to start investigating your case. No one is suggesting that you stop enjoying your social media. However, you need to be aware that you can become a victim of a crime because you revealed too much personal information on your social media. What to do if the police cannot help you? Should you experience a long delay for the police to get around to your case, you might want to contact a private investigator in your area to begin looking into your case. Social media enthusiasts, may not be aware of the consequences of posting updates on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites about their every move, or their latest adventure. They might as well distribute keys to their home to hundreds of strangers if they continue posting status reports. Social media presents an abundance of opportunities to steal your identity as well as breaking into your home. Plans referencing going out of town open your door to a burglary or worse yet; you may leave your family vulnerable to assault or robbery. Have you ever considered that the videos you posted of your family on YouTube provided a tremendous insight and observation of your family and your home? You should take into consideration that any video you upload to the Internet will provide information to certain deranged individuals who might act out on fulfilling their sick fantasies or criminal intent. Having an adorable child of any age that some mentally disturbed individual thinks should be theirs is a reality to be aware of.  Even sharing the name of your pet, enables a perpetrator to friend your pet, kidnap your pet and even harm your pet. So why offer the world the name of your pet? Think about that!

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