How one Middle Tennessee police department helps women, teens with self defense training
Posted on AllSides July 11th, 2024
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How one Middle Tennessee police department helps women, teens with self defense training Learning different holds and techniques to stop a physical assault wasn't something Williamson County's Gina Ross thought about before taking self defense classes. But, according to the National Coalition against Domestic Violence, 1 in 3 women in the United States have or will experience some form of physical violence by an intimate partner. And in Tennessee, a 2019 statistic found that 22 of every 25 sexual assault victims were women. Ross said she didn't want to become...