No means no...

According to FBI statistics, about 90,000 women are sexually assaulted each year.  

Officers from the Greenville Police Department and from East Carolina University Police have been offering ways for the women in our community to reduce the odds against them, and to allow a way for them to protect themselves, by providing a free self defense class, called RAD, or Rape Aggression Defense.

Recently,  WNCT channel 9 visited the Greenville Police Department and featured a RAD class being taught by Detective K.Z. Edwards and Detective Diane Smock.   

Here is the video:  RAD Training at the Greenville Police Department

The RAD training class is a 12-hour course usually broken down into a couple nights over 2 weeks.  RAD's goal is to develop and enhance a woman's self defense options so they become viable considerations when a woman is attacked.

RAD's basic physical defense training is simple to learn, easy to retain, and easy to use during real life confrontational situations.

The class is free to woman and teenagers.  It eliminates the myths that women are physically powerless against men, and gives them an renewed awareness of their true physical power, as well as educates them about basic self defense principles.

Nationwide, more than 250,000 women have taken RAD training.   RAD is one of the country's most popular self defense training classes for women.

If you want to learn more, or sign up for the next RAD class,  send an Email to RAD@greenvillenc.gov