Please stand by for realtime captions. >> Hello everyone and welcome. My name is Amber. I will be hoping helping to facilitate today's webinar. I will review the platform. We have a chat box. You can leave questions or comments. If you have technical or audio issues let us know in the chat box and I will contact you directly. Below the chat box there are web links. Relevant to this webinar that you may find useful. Please feel free to take advantage of that. We will be playing a video in this webinar. If you have dialed into the audio on your phone we recommend that you turn up your computer speakers at that time. At the end of the presentation please complete the survey that will automatically open. The survey helps us to improve our webinars for the future. Please take a moment to give us your feedback. Thanks again for joining us. I will turn it over to the presenters and and Dana. I know it's morning for the person who is in Alaska. As you are aware this webinar is wrapping up stocking awareness month. The stocking prevention awareness and research center in the national clearinghouse on abuse in later life would like to welcome you to our webinar called stocking in older adults, an overview. This project was funded by the office on violence against women and the U.S. Department of Justice . Please note the opinions, findings and conclusions and recommendations we express are our opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of the office of violence against women. I will introduce myself and turn it over to Dana to introduce herself. On the justice system coordinator. I have been with NCALL since 2016. I'm responsible for providing leadership within the criminal justice system on enhancing safety and the quality of life for older victims and survivors of abuse. I provide training and technical assistance. In my past life I was a legal services lawyer. I represented people of abuse and people with disabilities. I will let Dana introduce herself. My name is Dana Fleitman. I'm the associate advisor for SPARC. We are the national training provider on stocking anyone who is doing important work, folks like yourself. I am delighted to be here. Thank you for joining. SPARC is the stalking prevention and awareness resource center. We provide training modules. If you do awareness education fill free to utilize those. We have slides that are scripted and ready to go. Resources for victims including brochures on understandings stalking. We can ship those out to you in English or Spanish. We have a practitioner guide. For law enforcement for victim advocates. We are always looking to add more. We just release the guide for prosecutors. And webinars like this one. We have an archive on past webinars as well. On social media and we are on Facebook and twitter and Instagram. Are hand along is at follow us legally. If you get our sick sense of humor at SPARC. It will be a long hour and a half for you. Your call, they let me talk either way. We try to practice what we preach. We do have a letter that we send around quarterly. If you're interested in keeping up with our work go to our website and subscribe. We hope to hear from you. The national clearinghouse on abuse in later life is the comprehensive technical assistance provider for the later life grant program. There are lots of grantees on the webinar today. Thank you for being here. NCALL has been only organization that provides technical assistance, training and consultation on the intersection of domestic violence, sexual assault and elder abuse. NCALL is a national project. We have eight staff. A couple are in our home office in Madison Wisconsin. We have staff who work here in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. Colorado and Pennsylvania and Virginia. We do work in service of our mission. In an array of context and abuse in later life. We do this work as a team and various collaborations and partnerships. Including our work with SPARC and [ indiscernible ]. We are excited to talk with you about older survivors. And stalking. Want to thank Amber and everybody at NCJFCJ for hosting this webinar. For making it possible for us to speak with you today. Our objectives for today's webinar on this slide. We hope after the session you will be able to better recognize stalking behavior and understand how stalking impacts older adults. As well as identifying resources that can help you, improve your response or your agency's response to stalking behaviors. This is what we will cover. I will go through a short overview of elder abuse. We will get into specifics about stalking prevalence and dynamics. What is this need for older people and people who want to provide assistance? The elder justice roadmap provided, in 2014 this definition elder abuse. That is pretty much what we think of them were doing our work at NCALL. Being the physical, sexual or psychological abuse , as well as neglect, abandonment and financial exploitation of an older person by another person or entity. That could occur in any setting. The key to what we are talking about today is generally this abuse occurs within the context of a relationship where there's an expectation of trust. Or where someone is targeted based on their age or disability. We could be talking about a family member, an intimate partner, a caregiver, or any situation where someone is simply being targeted because of their age. The first statistic we have is from a national study done about eight years ago. One in 10 older adults residing in the community reported that experienced abuse in the past year. This does not include people who are living in facilities. That number is striking. It only includes people who have the economic, physical or psychological resources to report the abuse was occurring. We know that the prevalence of elder abuse is much higher because so few cases are reported. For one in 10 it means they had a phone and they were willing or able to pick up a phone and talk to a safe person and knew they needed help. This statistic does not include older adults living in residential facilities. Which is 4 to 5% of the older population. Those populations might actually be even more vulnerable. This does include the huge numbers of people we know are not able to or willing to self-report. Those you know there are tons of barriers that people experience which prevent them from reporting abuse. Whether this number might be one in 10 I think it is a huge understatement of the scope and the scale of the issue. This is the famous iceberg slide that we always use for every case of elder abuse that does come to the attention of an appropriate entity. We estimate there are 24 that never come to light. We are going to start with a video. I want to apologize this video is not captioned. When it is posted, we will post a recording of this on our website and it will be captioned at that time. I apologize that it is not captioned here. Let's take a look at the issue of victimization of older adults as it relates to stalking. A case study is always a good place to start. We will hear from a survivor named [ indiscernible ]. An 86-year-old stalking victim. She will talk about her experience. Local law enforcement was not able to identify a pattern of stalking. My house has been robbed and robbed. And robbed. My things have been taken and moved. And he seemed to enjoy being in my house when I was there. He pried out the lock. My doctor back door looks like a beaver shoot it. He would come in the yard and watch me through the window. The last time he tapped on my glass. Law enforcement repeatedly responded. No Wanted to quickly posit. I see a lot of people are having audio issues. As I mentioned earlier we asked that you turn up your computer speakers. If you have called in. Audio will not come through your phone. If you need to we can restart the video. The items stolen were of little value. First he started in on the pantyhose. Nothing of value was taken from [ indiscernible ]'s house. Windows were not broken. That your gems door jams were chewed up. We Will restart. You need to listen to the video through your computer. My things have been taken. And moved. And he seemed to be enjoying being in my house when I was there. He used his screwdriver to pry out the lock. After he quit breaking and he would come in the yard and watch me through the window. Maybe rattle a doorknob before he left to let me know he was there. The last time he broke and he tapped on the glass. Law enforcement repeatedly responded to [ indiscernible ]'s home for the robberies. The items stolen were of little value. First he started in on the pantyhose. He took three any girdles. 15 or 20. Pantyhose. Nothing of value was taken from [ indiscernible ]'s house. Windows were not broken. The door jams were chewed up by the screwdriver. I think there was discounting. The impact of the crime. [ indiscernible ] was very calm. I think her behavior was a bit different from what people expect from victims. It's easy to not take it seriously and say it is just pantyhose. The items taken were sexual in nature. Let's face it we have a whole history of believing that the peeping Tom is something almost to be laughed at. The phone calls [ indiscernible ] received, sometimes 10 or more a day were of a sexual nature as well. He Was in love with me and he was coming over. I'm definitely not in love with some young man. I don't care how much he loves me. I did not love him or have any intention of having anything to do with him. I told him so. He would call and say you have the most beautiful body. I Think her home became a far less safe place for her. He Asked me if I was so sexual active. It may be somewhat amusing to hear an 87-year-old woman say he wanted to make love to me. When you put that in context and you think about the man behind those words, and the kind of danger he could pose to anybody. Your privacy is invaded. This defendant in 1983 have been convicted for assault with intent to reap. With an elderly person in the same area. Law enforcement response to the danger was delayed to the inability to recognize the calls and harassment of the felony crime of stalking. This was partly due to the fact that different officers responded each time. It wasn't until the ninth response by law enforcement that somebody finally put it together that this was a pattern of behavior. Her age was against her. People tend to discount what an older woman is saying. They did not rush off they were very polite and very nice. As I say, it was an incident and it was over. Really listen to her victim. Don't go into the situation with preconceived notions, or semi idea of a quick fix. Usually there isn't one. Your role as a law enforcement officer is so crucial in dealing with this problem. I have a feeling they were really trying to help me. They helped me through the incident but there was no follow-through. After several times I even wrote a report and mailed it to the police department saying how many times I have been entered and what have been taken. I Think the log that she kept every time there was an attempted break-in or phone calls or anything, really was a visual representation that someone could look at and say this is a pattern of behavior. We are dealing with more than a single incident. I think he said you should be turned over to some special division for an investigation. Nobody knew the stockers identity the police investigator tracked in a suspect who had been convicted of similar crimes in the past. Thank you Amber. What sticks out for me in this video is that it took nine months. Law enforcement was not able to identify a pattern of stalking. They referenced the things that were taken or moved or were serious. There was a very serious damage and sort of minimizing the actions, but also not taking into account the psychological impact that it had on her. Do you want to add anything Dana? No. It highlights how traumatic this time can be as well as the minimization that has to occur. How our system is set up to be incident based. Something was stolen we will respond to that. We Would like to take a poll and know how many of you know that you have worked with an older adult who has experienced stalking behavior. A good proportion of you. 36-ish. Forms of abuse often will occur. Stalking often occurs within the context of other forms of abuse that are going on. That is something to keep in mind. As we go to the next section of the webinar we hope that maybe some folks who may not think you have experienced stalking might be able to recognize that it is in fact something that occurs in the life of older adults. He might be looking back on somebody you have worked with and think it did not dawn on me at the time but now I think that really was a factor. That was affecting their life. I really appreciate the way you set that up stalking is so very undertrained in our field. Is something that you may not identify. We always joke when we look at our funding, look at the violence against women act? We always called her website stalking.org. By the end of this webinar you are moving that stalking to the beginning. Seeing the work that you are already doing. That's critical. Why do we need to learn about stalking? Stalking is a really important thing to understand. It is criminal. It is traumatic and it is dangerous. Stalking is a crime. It's a crime at the federal level. In all 50 states. And the District of Columbia. And tribal codes and in the military justice system. Might be a misdemeanor or a felony. Depending on the situation. Across the board is a criminal activity. A lot of folks do not recognize this. Victim say when am I going to call the police because someone is ringing my doorbell. There is actually something we can do about the stalking behavior. It is a crime. It is criminal and traumatic. A lot of times when we talk about why it's so special to recognize stalking we go right to the physical violence and we validate. That is very important. I want to pause and point out that stalking is a crime in its own right. It's deeply traumatic for the victim and the survivor. Many stalking victims experience mental health issues that can be lifelong. She doesn't feel safe at home. The impact of having that chronic stress at all times. One and eight lose some time from work. Typically stalking victims are not a protected class of worker. If the victim goes to the employer and says hey here is what is going on I would like to switch shifts or not answer the phone anymore the employer could accommodate them or could say you are fired. One and stalking victims move. What do you want to move? You've chosen to move and still it is stressful and expensive to pack up your things and family and relocate. One in seven stalking victims making that choice. I think it goes to show just how confusing that many people are making that choice. It's crazy to hear from survivors in their own words. This is a stalking survivor who said it's not easy to describe the fear you have when you see the stocker or signs of a stocker everywhere you go. I have given up all hopes of ever having a safe life. For the rest of my life, I will be looking over my shoulder. Expecting to see him there. This is a common survivor quote. He would call me Nash -- stalking is dangerous. Often to occur with physical assault and sexual violence, including rate. 76% of intimate partner sennosides include stalking in the year prior. There was stalking in the year prior. It is no big deal. When we look back at the cases we almost always [ indiscernible ]. This one researcher went so far to say that stalking is homicide in slow motion. It's little behaviors that add up over time. And are often ignored until it is too late. We need to take these crimes seriously. As they add up and they begin. The only good news is it gives us an opportunity. It's one of the few crimes where early identification and prevention can prevent silence and death. We can do something about this. Is very underreported. Similar to domestic violence and sexual violence. It's underreported to law enforcement. This is for a variety of reasons. Law enforcement may not believe it will be taken seriously. In the case of stalking a lot of victims don't realize what happened is a crime. A lot of folks don't understand that about stalking. They may be embarrassed. Almost 2000 cases of domestic violence. Clear evidence of stalking. Of the 298 cases, how many of you think were charged as stalking by law enforcement? [ indiscernible ] it is underreported and under charged. This is and to be overly critical of law enforcement. When we look at as stalking case we do not know what we are looking at. That is okay. That is why we are on this webinar. What is stalking? There's a legal definition and a behavioral definition. Every state has different definition of stalking. I suggest you get familiar with it. I am not a lawyer. Today we will focus on the behavioral definition of stalking. That gives us a better idea of what stockers really do -- we can name it and a safety plan for it appropriately behaviorally stalking a little bit complicated describing behaviors. All these behaviors are bad. I want you to tell me which one of these could be all [ indiscernible ]. If you could pull up the first poll. A staff member hides a camera in the women's locker room to watch the women undress. It goes undiscovered for months. Does that sound like stalking? It looks like we have a split group. Most say it sounds like yes. Annex partner repeatedly spreads vicious rumors about their former partner on social media, does that sound like stalking? Last but not least we have this really bad supervisor, regularly asking employee personal questions, mocks him in meetings and emails at odd hours. And is verbally abusive and he doesn't respond right away. More folks saying yes. Thanks for doing that. When you were thinking about this on your own you might have been wondering does it have to be at a specific person? All these behaviors are problems. Are they all stalking? Luckily I will go to the behavioral definition right now. Behaviorally stalking is a pattern of behavior directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear. It is a pattern of behavior. It is not a single incident. It has to be two or more. Is called a course of conduct. You might hear me use those terms interchangeably. I'm talking about the same things. Two or more behaviors. Let's say I am stalking Ann The Worst Co-Presenter Ever. [ Indiscernible ] All of Those Are Stalking Behavior's Even Though Sending Gifts or Texting Someone Not Be Criminal outside the Context of a Stalking Case. Behaviors Can Become Criminal in the Context of Stalking. That's What Makes It Difficult. Again, It's a Different Officer Each Time. Someone Just Said Law Enforcement Reports That Stalking Is Hard to Prove. It Is Hard to Prove. It Requires Multiple Incidents. You Heard Her Say It Was a Different Officer Every Time. That Is Quite Typical. We Will Talk about That More Later. It Can Be Confusing. We Tend to Respond to That One Incident. Of Victim Comes in and They Worried about What Happened. It's a Pattern of Behavior Directed at a Specific Person. In the First Scenario Were a Staff Member Hit a Camera in the Locker Room That Might Still Be a Crime. It Was There to Watch Any of the Women Who Happen to Come by Undressed. That Is Not Really Stalking. With That Said It Could Become Stalking. Let's Say That Offender Identifies the Women from the Video. Contacts Them and Then Says You Better XYZ or I Will Release This Video of You Undressing. Now We Could Be Looking at a Stalking and Extortion Situation. It's the Single Act of the Camera. Or Whoever Happened to Walk by. It's Not Really Stalking. Arguably It Is Only One Incident. You Could Argue It Was over Multiple Days. We Do Often See What We Call [ Indiscernible ]. Now They Are Targeting Their X , and a Stocker Is Likely to Reach out to a Victims Family, Friends, Coworkers and Neighbors As Well Certainly A Lot Of Folks Can Become Involved Even in Victimized. In the Context and Purpose of Reaching That One Individual They Are Trying to Get to That Victim. They Might Use Other People to Get Their. We Think of It As Directed at a Specific Person. It Would Cause a Reasonable Person to Feel Fear. Fear Is Essential to Stalking. It's What Separates Stalking with Harassment. Harassment Is a Pattern of Behavior That Would Generally Cause Someone to Feel Angry, Annoyed and Disrespected. The Third Scenario with the Bad Supervisor That's More of a Harassment Case. Harassment Can Be Quite Serious. It Is Not Necessarily Scary. If My Supervisor Is Texting Me All the Time and Emailing Me at Weird Hours and Berating Me I Should Go to HR. That Is Not Okay. I'm Not Necessarily Afraid of. Let's Say She Starts Asking My Husband and I Don't Know How She Got His Number Is She Sending Me Pictures of Myself Walking My Dog. Now That Is Scary. Harassment Can Become Stalking Were Be Part of a Stalking Course of Conduct. I Hear This Misuse All of the Time. I Will Read an Article That Says She Got 50 Death Threats and It Was Extreme Harassment. When I Get My Death Threats I'm Not Just Annoyed I Am Scared. That Is More of a Stalking Case. That Is Tough. Here Is Quite Personable. This Is a Case Where the Woman Calls the Police and She Is Hysterical. All She Would Say Was There's a Cup of Coffee in My Car. Understandably the Police Are Not Sending out the S.W.A.T. Team. Like What Is Your Problem. Eventually She Calms down Enough And Says He Is Here. It Turns out, to the Victim, Who Had Moved and Relocated to the Stocker Thought She Had Covered Her Track There's a Couple Coffee with an Old Nickname for Her on It. When I Tell That Story People Make a Very Kind of Annoyed Face. Is That a Reasonable Person Would Feel Fear. A Reasonable Person, We Know the Story. When We Don't Know the Story Were like Your Car Had a Cup of Coffee, That's Amazing. Something Maybe Scary to the Victims but Not You As the Responder. It's up to Us to Ask Why Would That Scare You. These Are Sexual Items in Nature, the Things That Were Taken Someone Stole Pantyhose from an Elderly Woman They're Not Necessarily Thinking about It the Way That [ Indiscernible ] Is. We Need to Ask the Victims What It Meant to Them Behaviors Only Have Meanings Understood between the Victim and the Offender. The Classic Example Is an Offender Saying I Will Give You Roses the Day I Kill You. The Victim Receives Roses and Everyone around the Victim Is like This Is Amazing and the Victim Is Terrified. We Need to Ask What Did That Mean to You? What Is the Story behind This? Context Is Everything. It's Not Criminal to Send Someone a Gift Unless [ Indiscernible ]. Is the Context That Makes Stalking , Stalking. Is It Fear? Most Folks [ Indiscernible ]. When a Stalking Victim Reaches out to You They Will Not Say Hello I Am Experiencing a Course of Conduct That Would Cause a Reasonable Person to Feel Fear. I Believe You Call That Stalking. Probably That's Not the Language They Will Use. They Will Say Something More like My Neighbor Is Being Weird. My Daughter Is Being Creepy. My Friend Is Making Things Awkward. My Supervisor Is Harassing Me. That's the Kind of Language They Are More Likely to Use. It's up to Us to Be Thinking Could This Be Fear or Could This Be Stalking? A Lot Of Time the Fear Is Masked by Other Emotions like Anger and Frustration and Annoyance. Sometime Stalking Becomes Minimized. In the Video They Said That Velva Was Very Calm. They Did Not Take Her Seriously. I Know We Have Seen That Play out in a Variety of Ways. With Stalking the Minimization Can Happen. It's about the Repeated Behavior That Can Wear Someone down. For Example I Was Talking to a Law Enforcement Officer the Other Week. He Said He Got a Call from a Stalking Victim. The Stalking Victim Was Happy. The Victim Said Today Is a Great Day He's Only Driven by My House 10 Times. Law Enforcement Officers Are like It Is 9 AM. What Are You Talking about? Usually by This Time of the Day He Has Driven by 20 Times. She Was Minimizing the Situation and Not Expressing Fear the Way Most of Us Would Because of the Repeated Trauma and What She Had Experienced. If Most of Us Would Be Afraid of That Happening in That Situation , Even If the Victim Is Minimizing It or Seems Calm, Etc. It's the Fear Component. Stalking Is Extremely Prevalent Crime. In the Course of a Lifetime over One in Six Women and One of 17 Men Experience Stalking. This Is Using a Conservative Definition of Stalking. This Survey Asked the Victim If They Felt Very Fearful That They Are Someone Close to Them Would Be Physically Harmed. That's a High Bar for Stalking. We See One in Six Women and One in 17 Men Say Yes I Have Experience That. In the Next Iteration They May Be Taking out That Very. We Might See the Rates Go up. More That Is Being Captured by the Data. The Rates Are Closer to One in Four Women. People of All Gender Identities Experience Stalking. That's the Best Data That We Have. That's Why I Am Repeating It in That Way. People of All Genders Can Be Stocked and Can Engage in Stalking Behavior. The Majority of Victims Report the Offender Is Male. That's True for Female Victims. For Male Victims As Well about Half of the Offenders Are Male. A Great Deal of That of Men Stalking Other Men Because It's a New Partner of an Ex-Girlfriend or Ex-Wife. This Is True for [ Indiscernible ] over 60 As Well. Almost 90% of the Stalkers over Age 60 Were a Male. Or the Victim Reported They Were a Male. Women Report Stalking at Higher Rates Than Men Do. And If You Look for Image Results of Stalking, Which I Do Because I Am Fun. If You Look Just Google Stalking. These Are the Kind Images That You Get. It Is A Lot of Strangers in the Alleyway with the Hoodie and Binoculars. I like This Guy in the Middle Who Is Wearing a Hoodie and the Mask. You Get This Idea . I'm Sure It Will Not Surprise You to Know with the Work That You Do the Vast Majority of the Time the Victim Knows the Perpetrator and the Perpetrator Knows the Victim. Just like with Elder Abuse, It's about the Relationship. There Is Some Kind of Relationship before This Happened. I Don't Expect You to Be Surprised by This. When I'm Talking about Stalking outside of Our Field , People Are Shocked by This. When Most People Think about Stalking They Think about Celebrity Stalking. The Kardashians or Taylor Swift. Stalking Laws Come from a Celebrity Stalking Case. Rebecca Schaeffer's Murder in the 90s in California That Led Them to Pass the First Stalking on the Country. That's Not Wrong but It's Not What We Are Really Talking about. That Myth Can Be Challenging. We Will Say It's Not Stalking Because I Know That Person. Half the Time Overall the Offender Is a Current or Former Intimate Partner. I Wanted to Point That Half the Time They Art. They Are an Acquaintance or a Family Member or a Person of Authority. Decay Supervisor. Or They Can Really Be a Stranger. Around 16% of the Time. I Encourage You to Think about Are You Serving All Victims of Stalking? Typically Are Stalking Responses Are Domestic Violence Responses. That Is Not Wrong but It Is in Complete. They're All Know Are No -- for Example If I Am Being Stocked, If I Was a Senior in a Residential Space and Being Stocked by Someone Else in the Building, Am I Going to Think Family Violence Center? Probably Not. I Encourage You to Think about Are You Serving All Victims of Stalking? If You Are That Is Awesome. Do You Advertise It on Your Website? If You're Not Able to Serve All Victims of Stalking Do You Know Where to Refer Them ? We Have a Checklist on Our Website. That Asks Those Kinds of Questions. For Better or Worse It Is Falling on Us As a Service Provider. We Want to Think about All the Different Kinds of Relationships There. For Older Stalkers , Ages 16+, the Numbers Look Different. About Half the Time It Is an Acquaintance. A Quarter of the Time It Is Intimate, and a Quarter of the Time It Is a Stranger. We Want to Broaden Our Thinking Paths. Of Course and Includes a Great Deal of Intimate Partners. Half the Time in This Age Group We Are Looking at Acquaintances. You Want to Make Sure That Our Services Are Responsive to That. People Experience Stalking throughout Their Lifespan. Around 5% Are Age 65 or Older. I Know Defining Older Adults People Define It Differently. We Are Looking at over 10% Are Age 50 and up. It Is Happening to People across a Lifespan. All the Way from Children to Older Adults. These Are A Few Examples of Stalking Cases That We Know Are Happening. There Was a Young Woman Stalking an Elderly Man. She Got a Ride from Him from a Gas Station. There Was One Who Was Trying to Rob This Woman. Really Stalking Her Trying to Get the Money. Than We Have One That Is the Classic Elder Abuse, Withholding Medication Stalking Abuse. Stalking Can Intersect with a Variety of Other Abusive Behaviors. For a Variety of Motives. Stalking Behaviors Can Be Quite Varied. I Have Mentioned A Few of Them. The Thing to Remember Is As the Victim Says I Know It Sounds Crazy, but That Might Be a Stalking Case. The Kind of Behaviors That Velva Experienced Are Typical. One Common Stock or Tactic Is to Break into a Victims Vehicle or Home and Not Break or Take Anything but to Leave a Sign They Were There. Leave That Coffee Cup or a TV on the Channel They Used To Watch Together. Move a Lamp. When the Victim Gets Home They Know the Offender Has Been There Because They Are Sending Them a Message. They Feel like They Can't Prove It and No Big Crime Has Been Committed. In Velva's Case Only Hand Lotion Was Taken. The Victim Would Be Left Feeling Is That Even Worth Reporting? Offenders Know That. That's Why They Engage in Those Behaviors. They Tell the Line and Make It Hard to Prove. There Are so Many Different Stalking Behaviors. Wonderful Researcher [ Indiscernible ] It Helps Us to Think More Expansively about Them. Surveillance Is How Is a Offender Walking or Tracking or Monitoring or Keeping Tabs on. Gathering Information about a Victim. That Could Include GPS or Putting a GPS Device on Their Person or in Their Vehicle. Using a Camera and Good Old-Fashioned Showing up and Following around. Low Stalkers Are Stalking in Person. Going to the Trash and Going through Their Mail and Those Kinds of Tactics and Showing up All the Time. Asking Friends and Family about Them. All of That Can Be Surveillance As Well. How Is an Offender Showing up in the Victim's Life Where the Victim Doesn't Want the Offender to Be There? That Could Be through Contact. The Victim Is Trying to Get through Their Day and They're Getting Constant Tax from the Offender. The Offender Is Knocking on Their Door. They Are Making Friends with the Victim's Friends. Are Showing up Where They Do Not Want Them to Be. Interference Is Similar. What Is the Victim Actually Losing or Afraid of Losing As a Result of the Offender's Behavior? It Could Be Very Literal like Property Damage. It Could Also Be Things like Complaining to a Supervisor at a Workplace. Maybe an Anonymous Complaint Saying This Employee Is Not Doing Their Job. It Could Be Spreading Rumors. Way Back When I Started Talking You Might Remember We Have Those Three Scenarios. The Second One Was about an Ex-Partner Repeatedly Spreading Vicious Rumors about Their Former Partner. Of Course It Would Depend on the Situation, and It Can Be Difficult Because You Might Be Thinking How Can Spreading Rumors Be a Crime? People Talk and People Gossip. Stalkers Spread Vicious Rumors about the Victim. In Order to Significantly Interfere with Their Life. It Can Be Scary. For Example There Is a Case Where an Offender Photo Shopped Images , It Was the Victim's Face onto Pornographic Images and Made Copies on the Flyer along with a Bunch of Rumors about What He Likes Sexually and How to Contact Her and Distributed the Flyer to Everyone in Her Apartment Building. Clearly That Is beyond Gossiping. That Is a Rumor That Could Affect Her Reputation. In Terms of Her Social Life and Her Professional Life. It Could Lead to Physical and Sexual Harm. In Terms of People Contacting Her. We Think about Rumors, It's a Common Tactic That Stalkers Use in Order to Scare and Control Their Victim. Fear and Intimidation. How Explicitly Is the Offender Threatening That Victim? That Could Be Really Any of These Tactics. They Are Very Scary. It Could Be a Direct Threat. I Will Hurt You and I Will Find You. Sometimes It Is More Subtle Than That. We Know When an Offender Threatens to Hurt Themselves There Often Threatening to Hurt the Other Person. We See Intimidation through Family Members. I Will Do This to Your Daughter or to Your Son or to Your Pet. All of Those Kinds of Things. Any Combination of These Behaviors Can Be Stalking. Some of the Most Common Ones Spreading Rumors, Stalkers Are Creative Criminals Again. People Tell Me the Most Bizarre and Disturbing Cases Were Stalking Cases. I Just Read One Where the Offender Broke Drove 300 Miles to Carve His Ex-Girlfriend's Name and Trees near Her Home. That Is a Stalking Case. It Specific and Bizarre. We Want to Be Thinking Creatively. Unfortunately Stalkers Do. Most Stalkers Use More Than One Meaning of Approach. They Are Not Just Calling They Are Doing More Than One. About Two Thirds See Their Victim At Least Once per Week. Many Pursue Daily. And Some Use Weapons. The Stocker Has Plenty of Time to Change Their Tactics. The Average Duration of an Intimate Stalking Case Is Two Years. About 10% of Cases Last Five Years or More. Stalkers Have Plenty of Time to Start with Maybe They Are Following and Showing up in Person and Then They Go Away for A While. You Hope They Are Gone and Now They Are Emailing and Texting. It Can Last a Long Time. These Things Are Lifelong. The Behaviors Can Change. We Want to Think about the Entire Range of Behaviors. Not Just What Has Already Happened. You Always Provide Great Information Dana. I Love Listening to You Present. I Think It Is Such, It Bears Repeating Is Stalking the Crime , It Is an Afterthought. We Do Not Appreciate the Scope of the Problem. As We Should We See It in Entertainment Stories or on a Netflix Series. It Is This Romanticized Thing. Your Presentations Are Always Good. Thank You. Thank You. We Are Going to Talk a Little Bit about, at How Stalking Co-Occurs with Other Crimes.'s Doctors Stalkers Will Violate Orders of Protection. That's Often Not Helpful When You Are the Victim of a Stalker. Stalking Can Be Comprised of Acts That Are Not Criminal and Asked That Her on Their Face Benign. It's Not Identified until One of These Crimes Is Committed As Well. Often the Smaller Acts Will Increase. The Stocker May Be Testing the Waters to See What They Can Get Away with. And the Severity Increases As Time Goes on. As Dana Just Said Stalkers Are Patient and It Can Go on for Years. They May Start with Something Small like Trespassing or Minor Theft and Work up to Something That Is Much More Egregious and Dangerous. This Is a List of Some of the Crimes That Can Be Associated with Stalking or Can Be the End Result of a Stalking Pattern. Thank You So Much Ann. Some Stalkers Are Stalking to Commit One of Those Crimes. There Stalking Someone to See When Did They Leave Their Home and Where They Store Their Valuables so I Can Steal Them When They Are Gone. One Crime Is Intimate Partner Violence. Half of the Cases Overall, a Quarter of Cases of Older Adults Are Intersected with Intimate Partner Violence. A Lot Of Times in the Field People Will Say He Was Abusive. And Then He Began Stalking Her. That Can Happen Absolutely. Let's Take a Step Back. During the Relationship He Was Tracking Her and Following Her and Asking Friends and Families about Her and Spreading Rumors. Demanding All These Things. Something Can Be Emotional Abuse and Stalking. Quite Often and Is Happening during the Relationship. Half the Time Stalking Is Happening during the Relationship As Well. Sometimes It Doesn't Half the Time It Is Happening during. We Want to Be Able to Name That. It Is Not Criminal to Just Be Really Mean to Someone. It Is Criminal If It's Part of the Stalking Course Conduct. Digital Abuse Is Stalking. With Very Few Exceptions I Can Think of. We Should Name It That Way When We See It. The Reason We Should Name It That Way, One Is Because Those Stalking Cases Tend to Be Our Highest Risk Cases. On Average or Intimate Partner Stalkers Are Our Most Dangerous Stalkers. Use Weapons and Have Their Behaviors Escalate Quickly. The Only or Intimate Partner Stalkers Are Most Dangerous Stalkers Butter Intimate Partners Are Our Most Dangerous Intimate Partners As Well. This Is a Study of Women with Protective Orders. All These Women Have Been Abused and All Have Protective Orders from That Offender. Some of the Women Have Also Been Stopped by the Offender. This Study Showed That Women Who Have Been Abused and Stocked They Also Experienced Significantly Higher Rates of All of the Following. Ranging from Verbal Abuse to Severe Physical Violence. To Attack with a Weapon and Injury and Sexual Assault. Again, All These Offenders Can Be Dangerous. We Want to Know and We Take All of Our Domestic Violence Cases Seriously. We Want to Know When They Are Stalking Behavior. This Is a Higher Risk Case. She Be Able Big Red Flag. Stalking Can Intersect with Sexual Violence. In a Variety of Ways. I Also Encourage You to Think about Rimming for Sexual Violence. There Is a Certain Kind of Repeat Offender Those Offenders Have the Same Pattern of Behavior. Older People Can Be Especially Vulnerable. They Are Going to Establish Relationships. Whether That Is Online or Person. If It's Someone Praying on a Child It Might Be That They Contact Them Online and Say I Understand. Why Don't You Come over. They Isolate the Victim in Verse Them into Sexual Acts and Contact Them after. I Know I Am Speaking Broadly Here. That Is Generally How Grooming for Sexual Violence Tends to Go. Is It Directed at a Specific Person? Yes. Most of Us Are Afraid of Sexual Violence. That's Covered Explicitly under State Statues around Stalking. You May Be Thinking When Though, Perhaps the Victim Wasn't Afraid on Day One. When They Were Approached by the Person Who Became Really Friendly. There Is No Statute That Says One Fear Has To Attach. Now What I Think about That Is Scary. With This You Might Be Thinking This Is Stalking. You Might Be Okay I Get That You Think Everything Is Stalking. Why Do I Care? I Know It's Not Always Stalking. Sometimes It Is. It Gets Messed. It's Essential to Name Stalking Not Just As an Intellectual Exercise. I'm Not Just Saying Is an Interesting to Think about That Way? There Are Practical Reasons We Want to Identify Stalking. The Person I Mentioned a Little Bit. If the Victim Wants to Go That Route. Stalking Is a Really Wonderful Charge for Prosecutors , If They're Prosecuting One Incident of Domestic Assault or Battery They Cannot Bring into Court That Time Two Years Ago the Offender Spent Sent a Bunch of Creepy Pitchers They Will Say That Is Prejudicial. If They Are Charging Stalking All of That Is Relevant I Would Argue for Elder Abuse As Well. Escalates the Physical Violence. In Addition to the Act of Physical Violence. You Could Talk about the Entire Pattern of Behavior. For However Long It Went on. Also, for Safety Planning. Stalking Is a Crime. It Is a High Risk Indicator. There Is More Violence Going on or More to Come. We Want Them to Know That the Stalking Is There. So We Can Get the Victim the Right Resources. Also Victims Empowerment. It Goes a Long Way for Victims, Instead of Saying My Ex Has Gotten Weird to Be Actually Having a Language That I Am Fearing Stalking . the Crime. What Ever It Is It Is Being Able to Name It and Go a Long Way for Victims. For All Those Reasons It Is Important to Recognize into Name Stalking When We See It. Speaking of Naming Stalking Most Digital Abuse Is Stalking. I Just Want to Point out Sometimes I Hear This Miss Conception Older People Are Not Using Technology. That Is Not True. Most Older Adults Are Using Technology. The Vast Majority Are on Cell Phones. Most Are Using the Internet. Third Are Using Social Media. Of Course We Are Talking about Older Adults. I Expect This Is from Three Years Ago. It Has Probably Only Grown since Then. Older Adults Are Using Technology. Why Technology , There Are so Many Different Ways Technology Can Be Used To Enhance or Facilitate. Many Stalking Behaviors and More of Course. Could Be through That Constant Contact through Phone. Cameras Are a Global Positioning System. That Might Be Hacking into a Phone or Car That Has a GPS System. For Example like Child Trackers or Pet Trackers Those Are Popular These Days. They Are Expensive. They Show the Parents Right on the Phone Exactly Where That Person Is. There's Nothing to Stop Someone from Using That against Anyone. With Their Computers It Could Be a Keystroke Logger. Seeing Everything That Person Types. Replacing a Spyware on the Phone or Computer. That Gives Access to Just about Everything. All Text Messages and Every Website Visited. Some You Can Even Call in and Listen to the Surroundings of the Phone or Laptop. Even If the Person Isn't on the Phone. Especially If We Look at Smart Technology. Like a Smart Phone or a Smart Device. Anything That Connects to the Internet. A Lot Are Connected through the Wi-Fi and Controlled Remotely. If the Wrong Person Gains Access to That They Can Do All Sorts of Things. Think about an Elderly Person Who Has a Remote Garage Door Opener. So That His Children Can Come and Go into the Home As They Please without Having to Have a Key. If One Is a Use of or the Wrong Person Gains Access to That They Are Letting Themselves into the Home. There Is a Variety of Ways That Can Be Abused. If You're Thinking Technology Might Be Utilized, of Course There so Much to Say about the Use of Technology. Definitely Feel Free to Reach out for Further Training on This. There Could Be Technology Involved If They Seem to Know Where the Victim Is. If They Have Access to That Information. Or If They're Suddenly Having a Hard Time Accessing Their Account. These Are Some of the Big Red Flags to Look for Is a Full Other Town. This Is a Great Tool That Can Help Increase Technology Safety. It Is a Free App. You Can Download It. As Long As the Phone Is Not Being Monitored. At Talks about Different Kind of Privacy Settings on All These Devices and Networks. It's a Nice Way That Explains with Some of the Risks Are. Older Adults Can Be Victims and Offenders. There's This One Study Stalking Is Extremely Understudied. This Is the Best Information We Have about Older Adults Stalkers. That Can Happen As Well. Here Is A Few from the Headlines. Stalking People of All Ages and All Different Kinds of Relationships. It Could Be an Intimate Partner or an Acquaintance or a Neighbor or a Stranger. Older Stalkers They Are the Least Likely of All the Age Groups to Target Same-Sex Victims. There Is the Most Likely to Injure Their Victims. This Study Compared Three Age Groups of Stalkers. The Older Age Group Was Age 60+. Of Those Three They Are the Most Likely to Actually Cause Injury. And Target Victims outside of Their Age Group. Typically People Target Those around Their Same Age and Older Stalkers Might Be Targeting Younger Folks. No Good Stuff, Thank You Dana. Let's Talk a Little Bit about Reporting, and Why Victims of Stalking Do or Do Not Report. And How We Can Respond and What the Response Is to Stalking Behaviors. We Know That Less Than Half of Stalking Victims Report Their Stalking to the Police. Let's Use the Chat Box. Thinking about What You Know about Older Victims What Might Be Some of the Reasons They Would Be Hesitant to Report Stalking Behaviors? What Barriers Related, What Barriers Might They Face to Reporting? Let's See What You Have To Say. You Can Type Your Answer into the Chat Box. They May Have Financial Reasons, and They May Not Be Able to -- a Big One Is Worrying They Will Not Be Relieved. They Do Not Want to Harm People That They Know. I Think That Is Very True. If They Know Who the Stocker Is They Want the Behavior to Stop It They Don't Want the Person to Get in Trouble. They May Not Realize It Is a Crime. They May Just Think Leaving a Couple Coffee in My Car Is Not a Crime. It's about the Context. It's about How the Behavior Makes Them Feel. Is It Something That Is Causing Fear? These Are All Really Good. They May Not Be Intellectually, or Have the Capacity to Report. Again, They Fear They Will Not Be Believed. The Fear That Law Enforcement Might Think It Is Dementia. And Discount the Claim, and Maybe They Are Afraid That Somebody Is Going to Stick Them in a Nursing Home. That Is a Common Fear. There May Be Language Barriers. Going into a Nursing Home. You Guys Are Really Good at This. Independence, a Family Member, That Is Good Too. The Family Member May Say You Are Not Doing Okay Living Alone. We Are Going to Have Someone Live with You. Really Good. You Guys Identified Many of These. Obviously Older Adults Face Baseline Issues of Ages When They Are an Older Victim. We Are All Aware People Tend Not to Be Believed. We Make Assumptions about Their Capacity and Their Ability to Understand a Situation. There Are Harmful Stereotypes about the Capabilities and Characteristics of Older Victims. That Impacts How They Are Perceived and How They Anticipate They Will Be Perceived. One Stereotype Is Wondering Why a Stocker Would Want to Stack an Older Person? That Is a Harmful Stereotype. It Diminishes the Motivation of Stalkers and the Fact That the Severity of the Crime. When Older Adults Seek Support They Might Not in -- They Are Unreliable Victims Who Do Not Understand Their Stories Correctly. Some Older Adults Might Experience Assumptions around Minimizing the Threats against an Older Victim. Questions about Whether They Are Confused about What Is Happening. Maybe That's Not Really Happening but It's Their Medication Causing an Hallucination. Really Good Responses There. A Bit from the National Stalking Study We Have Been Referencing We Look at the Impact of the Issue of Ageism and Stereotypes around Older Victims. This Study Noted When Older Victims Reported Stalking They Are Often Told They Are Overreacting. The Actual Level of the Threat They Were Facing Was Not Acknowledged. In a Sufficient Way. Older Victims Who Participated in the Study Also Noted That after Reporting They Were Left Us Filling They Were Not Taken Seriously When They Did Report. Those Are Pretty Striking Specifics. When Victims Do Seek Support and Assistance When They're Dealing with Stalking Behaviors We See That a Plurality of Victims Seek Support from Family and Friends. That's First Two They Are Likely to Go to. Others like an Attorney or an Employer from the Justice System, Mental Health Professional and State Leaders and Other Community-Based Advocates Are Few People Might Disclose This Sort of Behavior to. The Statistics Are Helpful and That They Provide Is an Indication of How You All Can Think up Effective Ways to Assist Older Victims of Stalking. You Probably See Your Self on This Chart. That You Would Be a Likely Person That Someone Might Disclose This Sort of Concern to. It's a Good Time to Check Yourself and Think about It Victims Are Coming to You. Is There a Way You Could Better Be Collaborating through Formal Networks or Informal Connections? To Ensure You or Your Organization Are Positioned Well to Respond to People Who Are in a Stalking Situation? The Conclusions of This Study Which Focused on the Criminal Justice Response of Stalking , It Was in Rhode Island. The Conclusions Were That More Education Is Needed. Law Enforcement Was Not Necessarily Recognizing Stalking. When They Did Recognize It and Charge It Prosecutors Could Often Dismiss It or Reduce the Charges. Why Does That Happen? Because They Do Not Think They Can Get a Conviction? It Is across the Spectrum, There Needs to Be More Awareness of the Severity and Frequency and Severity of These Cases. Everybody Gets It but It Gets to the Judge and the Judge Does Not See This As a Crime. To Quote Some of the Videos That We Use, If There Is One Link in That Chain the Whole Thing Is Going to Fall Apart. That's Why I Am Pleased You Are All Here. We Have a Range of Professions in the Webinar. Who Are Here. I Really Appreciate That. In Addition to Filling Disclosure Would Not Be Helpful or Beneficial Because They Were Not Being Taken Seriously, Many Older Adults Who Were Surveyed Were Themselves Uncertain As to Whether What They Were Experiencing Was Stalking. They May Have Reported a Behavior but Never Use the Word Stalking. They May Also Be Minimizing the Behavior Themselves. We Have Discussed the Many Ways That Older Adults Felt That No One Took Them Seriously or They Had Some Kind of Negative Response. They Will Not Go Back to Law Enforcement or an Advocate. If Their Concerns Were Minimized. In That Way Velva Story Is the Exception. She Did Have the Persistence to Keep Reporting These Incidents until Finally It Was Addressed Appropriately. One Additional Reason for Nondisclosure of Stalking Is That the Older Adult Was Isolated. Whether the Isolation Is from Friends and Family or Other Support Networks, Lack of Access to Support Services. Older Adults That Are Living at Some Level of Isolation May Not Be Able to or Know How to Report at All. That Is an Important Thing to Consider and Keep an Eye out for. There Are Lots of Reasons That Older Adults Are Not Going to Disclose the Stalking Behavior. The Biggest, and You Guys Identified This Is Fear. Fear They Will Lose Independence or the Ability to Make Their Own Decisions. It's a Very Real Fear. Especially When We Confront Related Issues like Mandatory Reporting. And Lay Ageism over the Top It's Easy to Understand Why People Would Not Be Likely to Come Forward and Report. Sometimes Others Assume an Older Adult Is in Need of Rescuing. Or They Need a Substitute Decision-Maker. In Fact, All They Want Is to Have That Stalking and. There May Also Be a Deep Concern That the Perpetrator Is a Family Member. Like a Child or Grandchild or an Intimate Partner, or Other Caregivers. For Older Adults Who Are Stocked by Their Children They May Have Shame around That. I Am so Embarrassed. People Will Think I Raised My Child to Do This. They Will Be Concerned about Engaging the Justice System If Their Child Is a Perpetrator. They May Want the Behavior to Stop but They Don't Want to Lose Their Child or Have Their Child Go to Jail. With Intimate Partners or Caretakers the Concerns Can Be Related to Safety. As Well As Issues of Independence. I Want to Report This but I'm Going to Lose the Only Person That Takes Care Of Me. I'm Going to End up in a Nursing Home and I Won't Be Able to Have My Activities of Daily Living Be Met. On the Last List , the Issue of a Lack of Understanding As a Role of Technology in Stalking. As Dana Said This Is Something That Is Less and Less Every Year. People Generally Are Becoming More Technological Savvy. I Would Not Know How to Detect Spyware on My Computer. I Will Publicly Say That Right Now Which Is Probably Not Supersmart. There Are Barriers. Especially When the Perpetrator Is Using Technological Ways to Stack the Older Victim. What Is Interesting about This Research That We Have Is That in the Case of Older Adults Who Are Stocked They Are Least Likely to Be Aided by Family and Friends. And Less Likely to Access Effective Services. What This Means Is That Older Adults Are Sinking Support for Stalking Are Looking to Friends and Family. They Are Less Likely to Be Helped by Those Individuals. Why Is That? It's Because of the Lack of Education around Those Reasons Older Victims Are Less Likely Than Victims of Other Kinds of Crimes to Access Any Resources of Support As All. Stalking Tends to Get Minimized As a Crime. People Don't Know What to Do. This Information Speaks to the Confounding Impacts of Age and Accessing Effective Services. I Wanted to Add, You Put That so Well. Any Victim and Especially Older Victims Might Not Report. To Piggyback on That, I Think to Reporting and Family and Friends How to the Family and Friends Respond? So Often We Minimize Stalking. Also Such a Casual Use of the Word Stalking. I Hear the Word Used All the Time but It's Not Used Accurately. It Dilutes the Meaning of the Term. Its Unique to That Crime. People Don't Say That Party Was so Let It Is Arson. People Do Say I Was Totally Stalking You. Was It Stalking Are Stalking? That Can Really Impact a Victim Coming Forward. As Well As If the Victim Does Disclose to a Friend or Family Member, If They Kind of Think They Know What Stalking Is. They Have Heard It before. They Can Minimize It. It Can Affect Dozens of Responders As Well. We Don't Think of It As a Huge Major Crime. I'm Not Saying [ Indiscernible ] Is Stalking. It Is a Confusing Crime All around. That Is a Good Point. I'm Guilty of That. I Will Make Comments about Someone Stalking Someone on Social Media When That Isn't What That Is. That's a Good Thing to Point out in Terms of the Impact on Stalking on Older Adults I Want to Point out That What We Know about Elder Abuse Victims and Survivors Including Victims of Stalking, Study after Study , It Shows the Experience of Abuse Dramatically Increases the Mortality Rate for Older Victims. We Know That Victims of Elder Abuse Are Three Times As Likely to Die Prematurely Than People Who Are Not Abused. The Impact on One's Health Is Real and It Is Dramatic. I Want to Turn to Where We Started in Terms of Thinking about Whether You, the People Attending This Webinar As Service Providers and Advocates Are Working with Older Persons of Stalking. Are You Recognizing It As Stalking? Do We Treat It As Stalking? And for Working with Older Adults Who Are Being Stalked and We Are Looking at Stalking As Part of Elder Abuse More Broadly, What Are the Issues That Present Themselves for Older Victims? If We Label Stalking As Elder Abuse Does That Present Challenges to Having Them Access Effective Services? These Are Questions That Are Important for You to Think about. And Grapple with When You Consider the Work That You Do and How You Are Working with Older Victims. In Your Communities and Your Organizations. Think about Them When You Consider Ways That You Can Enhance Your Services and the Supports That You Offer to Older Victims. I Would Invite You to Share Your Thoughts on These Questions in the Chat Box. About Your Organizational Response. And Are You Doing It? Have You Seen Things in This Webinar That Have Made You Think We Could Change the Way That We Provide Our Services to Make Them More Inclusive and More Welcoming for Older Victims of Stalking. If You Want to Share Your Thoughts in the Chat Box I Will Hand It Back to Dana. To Talk about Some of the Resources and Supports That Are Available to You Now and after the Webinar Is Concluded. To Wrap Us up A Few Strategies and Resources. Of Course This Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg. A Different Iceberg Than We Saw Earlier on the Webinar. One of the Major [ Indiscernible ] You Want to Advise Engagement. Any Engagement with a Stocker , the Stocker Sees As a When. The Stocker Calls the Victim 100 Times and the Victim Picks up and Says I Hate You Stop Calling Me. Tomorrow the Offender Will Call 101 Times. According to Them That Works. With That Being Said This Engagement Is Not Always Realistic or Possible. Victims Sometimes Do Choose to or Feel They Have To Reach out to the Offenders. That Is Not Always True. There Are Some States Where That Is a Big Problem. The Victim Will Say How Afraid Could That Victim Be? Why Are They Reaching out. Let's Think about That for a Second? We Got a Call Just like That Were It Turns out the Victim Called the Offender and They Talked for Hours. We Asked the Victim Why She Made That Call? She Said I Know He Gets off Work at 2 AM at the Bar so I Pick up the Phone and Called Him and I Heard Him Drive Home and Get into Bed and Fall Asleep. So He Would Not Come over and We Got My Kids and Neighbors. It's That Keep Your Enemies Closer Thing. Many Victims Do That. We Want to Advise the Engagement and Let Victims Know We Understand It May Not Always Be Possible. Let's Have an Open Dialogue about It. Let's Make a Safety Plan around It. Documentation Is Critical. We Often Tell Victims It Is Key to the Document. We Do Not Tell Them How. This Is Something That Can Help the Documentation Log. It Is Free On Our Website If the Date, Time and Location. It Can Be Very Frustrating for Victims. I Live in D.C. It's Right between Maryland and Virginia. Maybe the Victim Works in Virginia and They Visit Their New Partner in Maryland and They Live in D.C. or Whatever. That We Have Several Jurisdictions. Every Time the Victim Calls the Police It Feels like the First Time They Are Calling. A Different Officer Every Time in a Different Jurisdiction Every Time. Nobody Connecting the Dots. We Encourage That Location. If There Are Witnesses Their Name and Contact. If the Police Were Called to Report Number An Officer Name and Badge Number. Sometimes Officers Are like My Getting in Trouble? It Is to Keep Track. This Can Help the Victim. It's Unfortunate That It Is Burdensome on Victims. Stalking Is about the Course of Conduct. We Need to Show If It Keeps Happening. Under Full. It Is Free Online You Can Get to It at Stalking Risk .Work. There's a Link to It On Our Website They Are Focused on Domestic Violence I Really Suggest You Check It out. We Also Have Honor Webinar, Going through the Sharp Assessment with a Practice Case. I Highly Recommend That. Everyone's Favorite Website Stalking Awareness.org. We Have the Documentation Logs. And Safety Planning Tips. We Have the Resources for National Stalking Awareness Month. We Hope You Are Thinking about What You Want to Do Next Year. And That You Remembering Stalking Victims Year-Round. Year -- We Funded to Do Training for All Grantees Are Potential Grantees. If Your Thinking I Would Really like to Hear You Talk More Dana Dreams Come True. Go to Our Website and Request the Training. A Few Are Working on a Case and You Want to Talk about It, Please Feel Free to Talk to Us about It. There Is No Official Stalking Hotline. If You're Not Sure Where to Refer Victims Please Reassure -- If You Want a Deeper Dive into the Statue [ Event has exceeded scheduled time. Captioner must proceed to captioner next scheduled event. Disconnecting at (10:30 AM) ]