Parking Lot Security – Use your Car as your Personal Safe Room

Keep the line of sight with the main entrance

• Parking lot security is using your vehicle as a personal safe room.
• Parking lot security is highest while safe inside your locked car.
• Parking lot security is most critical while walking outside of a car.
• Parking lot security is affected most by young male predators.
• Parking lot security is detecting predators looking for a victim.
• Parking lot security is being alert to the conditions and risks.

Podcast Time Stamps:

[01:00] – Customer confrontation questions about parking lot security.
[01:40] – Least amount of personal security and control is in a parking lot.
[03:00] – Compare the amount of personal security and control to your home.
[03:50] – Decisions about our family safety are initially your responsibility.
[05:00] – Locking your car doors and windows is the first step.
[05:30] – A locked vehicle is a significant barrier to personal assaults.
[06:10] – Select a parking space with line-of-sight to the destination.
[06:40] – Parking lot predators are usually young males.
[08:15] – Only leave the safety of a locked car when deemed safe.
[08:30] – Conduct your own parking lot security experiment.
[09:40] – Watch how retail store customers behave in a parking lot.
[10:15] – Consider if this is how parking lot perpetrators view you.
[11:10] – Have a family meeting and make a parking lot security plan.
[11:50] – Make locking your vehicle doors the first part of your daily routine.

Parking Lot Security Decisions can make you safe

• If you think about it, we’re all strangers in a large parking lot making parking lot security difficult.
• We are taught to share the space and we give little thought to others walking nearby.
• Parking lot security is at the highest level while inside your locked vehicle.
• Pick a parking space with good visibility and line of sight to the store entrance.
• Only exit the safety of your locked vehicle after first scanning the area for potential threats.
• The most common parking lot security threat is a male standing or seated nearby watching you.
• The most critical parking lot security point is at the driver’s side door as you enter and exit the car.
• The crimes of robbery, purse snatch, carjacking, and abduction occur precisely at this point.

Test your own parking security experiment

• Next time you go to a large parking lot, stay seated inside your car and watch customer behavior for about 15 minutes.
• Imagine that you are a male parking lot predator looking for an easy victim to rob.
• Use a rating system between 1-5 to score the most likely and least likely victim to attack.
• Watch people walk to and from their cars totally consumed by their thoughts or talking on their cell phones.
• Watch people as they approach their cars and fumble for their keys.
• Are they looking around to see if a potential predator is standing or sitting in a car nearby?
• Did any of these customers spot you sitting alone in your car watching them?
• Did they turn their backs and attention completely away from you to load their shopping bags into the car?
• Make note of how children and infants affect the timing of the transition in and out of the vehicle.
• Observe how easy it would be for you to approach and attack these inattentive customers.
• Develop your own parking lot security plan for your family based on these observations.

For more information on parking lot security

• Carjacking Robbery @ CrimeSchool.com/20
• Carjacking Facts @ CrimeDoctor.com
• Parking Lot Crime Prevention @ CrimeDoctor.com

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