We all have our needs – food, water, clothing, cars, iPhones, beer, hanging out with friends, needing new shoes, and the million other reasons that cause us to leave our homes. When we enter into the public sphere, we willingly abandon the defensible security and safety of our personal anchor points, our homes, and take on the challenge of ensuring our own safety out in the community. As recent history has shown, securing these public areas is very difficult because of the inherent nature of being in areas that are open to anyone. However, instead of assuming that these places can’t be secured, it just requires that people have the ability to clearly establish what patterns exist and how criminals will deviate from that baseline.