“Don’t you scare kids by teaching them self-defense?” I asked Irene Van der Zande, co-founder of KIDPOWER, an empowerment self-defense group in Northern California. It was in the late ‘80s, and I was ...
On Jan. 21, police were dispatched to North Church Drive regarding a noise disturbance in an apartment. An arriving officer had been called out earlier for the same issue. At that time, the resident ...