These videos and audio will change regularly. They are posted here with the intent that you might be able to view a real-life example of the principles we believe work best in confronting violent behavior.

Audio: Calling 911 Does Not Always Fix the Problem

From November of 2007

NWI.com / HAMMOND | A Hessville woman will not be charged in the shooting death of a man accused of breaking into her home in November and stalking her. Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter said on Wednesday he was turning down any charges against the woman in the death of Ryan Lee Bergner, 41, considering her actions to be in self-defense and defense of property. The Nov. 12 shooting of Bergner as he cornered the 51-year-old woman in an upstairs bedroom closet capped a month of escalating terror — chronicled in a series of police reports filed by the woman — which included break-ins, vandalism and assaults in her workplace. They had briefly dated over the summer, but Bergner couldn’t accept that she didn’t want to be his girlfriend, and wouldn’t take “no” for an answer, the woman said. That fatal Monday night, she was watching television at 10:30 p.m. when she heard a window breaking, and called 911. Bergner had already broken into her house two days earlier, she reported to police, destroying a clock-radio and stealing several of her undergarments. Police found her in her front yard when they arrived moments later, and found Bergner, wearing black leather gloves and a brown leather jacket, lying partially in the bedroom closet with three bullet wounds to his abdomen, a 9 mm pistol on the bed nearby. 

Why we ask you to listen to this audio:

• The average police response time in the US is over 6 minutes.
• The average violent encounter is less than 2 minutes.
• Do the math. Statistically, it is likely you will be on your own when initially confronting an Adversary. Are you prepared to deal with it?