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An important day in the life of Jason Vo.

One Day Story - Jason

0:13
Vanessa: My name is Vanessa Pascual, I’m 27 years old, and I’m from Honolulu, HI

Noel: Can you tell me a story of a close call you’ve had, in regard to personal safety?

0:36
Vanessa: This was when I was at my old apartment; I was driving a friend home. This was in Lake City. So we went down to my garage, it’s an open garage, I got into the car, he got into the car. And one of the neighbors came over and started talking to us, fine. But then he started getting closer and closer, my door was still open, and all of the sudden he started to get into my car and it got really scary.

1:05
Noel: So you were sitting in the drivers seat and he was like in your lap?

Vanessa: Almost. But like his face was right next to mine, and then my friend started giving him cash, for whatever reason, thinking that it might go, that he might go away. But he was like “I don’t want your cash.” But he was still like in my face. 

1:26
So then I forget what happened, but we managed to push him out, and then I drove off, and I then I drove into the Fred Meyer parking lot and I just started crying cuz I was so scared. Ya. And then I calmed myself down and then I drove my friend home, but I was really scared. So then I told him to get into his car so he could follow me back home. Then I got home, ran to the house, and then I think I called 911, but they said that I couldn’t really do anything about it since I wasn’t really attacked, and it was just like verbal harassment, so I was like whatever. Slept on it. And then that was it.

2;16
Noel: Did you have to like actually physically push him out of the car?

Vanessa: I think so. I just don’t remember. I just remember being really scared. I don’t know if my friend did it, or like if he just backed off automatically.

2:34
Noel: I’m so sorry. Um, Do you think about that event a lot, or is it just kind of something?

2:46
Vanessa: I mean I thought about it when I lived there. It was just, it’s hard not to with the neighbors always screaming all the time and having to walk to your car. But I think we moved right after, a couple, a couple of months after it happened, so I haven’t really thought about it since.

3:08
Noel: Do you think that having that experience effects how you behave now? 

3:14
Vanessa: Ummmm, I mean kind of. Not really. 

Noel: You don’t think so?

3:22
Vanessa: No

Class Example Of Vanessa Interview Mixdown

0:06
Making a plan of where you’re gonna walk, being aware of where you’re walking, what’s going on around you. Having safety devices, alarm, flashlight, and then obviously utilizing those as you see fit, right, so make sure people know where you’re going to and from, those sorts of things. There’s power in numbers.
0:32
There is no way to be 100% safe, right? Because you can’t dictate what other people do. Some people, like all that stuff, you can pepper spray them in the face, you can blow their eardrums out, and you can, you know what I mean, shout at them all you want to, and they might still just be you know what I mean out of their mind and still just do whatever, right? 
1:00
There’s no way to be 100% safe. But I think the level tear of education that we give in terms of things that you can have and things that you can do when going to and fro will minimize the chances of something happening to you, a lot more, than not doing any of threat stuff, right? So if you had to put a percentage on it, like, you might not be 100% safe, but it’s definitely going to make you 99, 98% safe, right? As opposed to someone who has none of those things and is walking with their ear buds in and their face is in there phone, there not paying attention to anything, right? That’s probably like a 0%, right? So um, ya, that’s kind of how we educate our population on how to get home safely.
1:47
It’s like having a multilayered kind of plan, and then being able to have um items that will, if put in a situation where maybe something might happen to you, will deter somebody from doing something to you. 
2:02
So you have a plan, and you have a deterrence. And between the two of those, um, you’ll minimize your likelihood of something happening to you.
2:13
We can’t investigate, or we can’t look into things we don’t know about. And that’s why I tell people all the time, like I don’t care about rumors, like tell me rumors. I love rumors. I love rumors. Because I’d love to be able to go out and figure out if those rumors are true or not. 
2:27
We’ll tell you, like we’re a straight up agency, like, one of the things that was happening last weekend some rumor got started about there’s a serial killer up in the Greek system, and they found a dead body and stuff. And this thing had like blown out of proportion, right. And of course everybody else is like, like all the staff is like, “That’s ridiculous.” But like the people in the Greek system people were like, “no, we literally thought this was going on, and nobody was telling us anything.” And we were like, “did you call us?” Like, we send out alerts for things that don’t even happen on campus. Like if there was a serial killer running around, north of 45th over by you all, you think honestly we wouldn’t send something out, like if that was true, if we found a dead body or whatever? And they were like, “ya, but, you know.” Like, just tell us. Like, come to us and ask us. Like I have no problem with that. 

3:22
So ya, for anything that even is remotely suspicious, call us. You know what I mean, if it turns out to be nothing and nothing needs to be documented or whatever, fine, cool, we’ll make that determination, um, but sketchy stuff like that we want to know about because we, again, we care about your safety. And the last thing that we want is something to happen to someone else or you because we didn’t know about it. We want to be at the forefront of knowing things, we don’t want to be on the back end of it. I would much rather prevent a theft than take a theft report.

18.02.06 Officer Smiles 3 - 5 Min Of Interview

1.	Ambi (outside of the UWPD Station)

2.	Officer Smiles introduces himself
“I’m Dahmar Smiles, um, I’m a police officer. I also do a lot of crime prevention planning.

3.	“There is no way to be 100% safe, right? Because you can’t dictate what other people do. Some people, like all that stuff, you can pepper spray them in the face, you can blow their eardrums out, and you can, um, you know what I mean, shout at them all you want to and they might still just be, you know out of their mind and still just do whatever. You know what I mean, there’s no way to be 100% safe.”

4.	“I think the level tear of education that we give in terms of things that you can have and things that you can do when going to and fro will minimize the chances of something happening to you, a lot more, than not doing any of threat stuff, right? So if you had to put a percentage on it, like, you might not be 100% safe, but it’s definitely going to make you 99, 98% safe, right? As opposed to someone who has none of those things and is walking with their ear buds in and their face is in their phone, there not paying attention to anything, right? That’s probably like a 0%, right?”

5.	“We can’t investigate or we can’t look into things that we don’t know about. For anything that even is remotely suspicious, call us.”

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