#CapBlackRLSH Birthday Bash 8pm Tuesday, April 11th, 2017!
Crawfish Boil. Cash Bar.
Speaker: ” Warrior Woman ” Kristen Crain Survivor & Advocate.
Hosted by Spotted Cat Food & Spirits
2372 St Claude Ave, corner of St. Claude & St. Roch
New Orleans in the New Orleans Healing Center
Cap Black
504 214 3082
A painful truth for many in what we call a civilized society is stubborn security illiteracy of many otherwise competent decision makers. By security illiterate, I don’t mean they lack credentials and certifications whose only use after failure to create safety is as improvised bandages. That’s not the illiteracy I reference. Security illiteracy is willful refusal to personally or collectively take steps to deter proven threats around you. Alot of business owners fall into this category by ignoring persistent theft or even violent crime due to fear of having to spend money to combat it. I’ve seen club owners unconcerned about whether patrons dance through a gauntlet of known risk to buy drinks. So long as they made it to the bar, that was their only concern. I recall one venue whose paralysis of analysis was so severe that local criminals robbed patrons like clockwork for years, confident nothing would be done. This made vendors feel like hostages, which they were. Safety creation is not confined to the few in law enforcement and private security. Crime is too prevalent for the public to play the role of passive consumer. If a space you work in or frequent is run by security illiterates, don’t let their illiteracy produce your injury. Create your own safety without apology! Nadra Enzi aka Cap Black is creator of the Cap Black Street Patrol. |
It’s amazing the number of like minds uniting around what should be a given in a developed country: that women shouldn’t be attacked by strangers in the streets or predatory acquaintances. My volunteer street patrol naturally gravitated to advocating on behalf of this civilizational norm. It’s absence makes other advocacy irrelevant. This ” coalition against brutality ” takes conventional pre-existing organizations, concerned citizens and advocates and offers an unconventional lens, my Cap Black Street Patrol, through which to express themselves. Bluntly, short of martial law, there simply aren’t enough armed government employees available to stop rampant, often misogynistic crime. There are, however, enough citizens around to provide immediate safety. When you offer to walk a woman to her vehicle after sundown, you both recognize that area police can’t offer bodyguard service and private security companies are often closed. This recognition is a ready tool by which aggression can be displaced and out-maneuvered. The Cap Black Street Patrol is one micro lens through which an informal coalition against brutality unifies various concerns into laser focus on street safety and abuse prevention for women. We also actively focus our efforts through other’s lens too! Nadra Enzi aka Cap Black is creator of the Cap Black Street Patrol. 504 214-3082. |
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As loud music, alcohol, testosterone estrogen and possible recreational pharmaceuticals increase and judgment decreases, it’s a very good idea to have a safe fun companion watching your back- without cramping your style. You have a good time while I make sure it doesn’t end badly- how’s that sound? Contact Nadra Enzi aka Cap Black, Creator of the Cap Black Street Patrol, to reserve him as your safe fun companion. 504 214-3082. |
The recent arrest-and quick release-of the predator who abused Kristen Crain has social justice advocates asking whether his being White explains this development?
I’d like to think such racist reasoning is no longer as active as it frankly was during my childhood. The thought that a ” man ” preying on women is anxiously turned loose after being surrounded by majority Black inmates doesn’t speak well for a city priding itself on progressive credentials. That’s the impression spreading in skeptical minds.
My support of police and prosecutors is always balanced by advocacy for victims whom elements in the criminal justice system underserve.
It is this dual concern which makes me raise suspicions of those who aren’t overly trusting of local law enforcement and prosecution. These skeptics represent a vocal percentage of New Orleans body politic.
I’d hate to see such bias happen to ” Warrior Woman,” as I call her, or any woman, because of the color of this predator. That impression rolls the clock of public confidence backward instead of forward.
Nadra Enzi aka Cap Black is creator of the Cap Black Street Patrol. *Walking escorts* *Victim advocacy* 504 214 3082.
Since late November, I have created safety alongside a surprisingly supportive community of business owners, staff and patrons at the New Orleans Healing Center. A little more canvassing has included area establishments hit by violent kids; an online group providing updates and the neighborhood association.
This wasn’t a job for traditional approaches like using private or police officers. It definitely isn’t a job for reservists from our discredited Sheriffs office being pushed by a shady board member to ( unethically and illegally ) replace me. This was a job for a safety creator, someone who could be the lead figure in encouraging collective awareness and responsibility everywhere, my CARE model.
I am a safety creator. While my advocacy involves private security and police as part of its coalition, I primarily mobilize the public because it is our largest and least engaged resource. Citizens ultimately decide how safe they are, not others rationing safety on installment plans.
Creating safety at the New Orleans Healing Center has been, minus the shady board member’s scheming, a daily celebration of safety creation in one of the least safe cities in the nation.
Nadra Enzi aka Cap Black is the creator of the Cap Black Street Patrol, whose volunteers offer walking escorts and victim advocacy. 504 214 3082.
I recently became aware, through social media, of a rape survivor whose ( serial ) abuser has yet to be arrested despite her naming him; undergoing a sexual assault examination and pointing out his home to police officers. I wish I could tell you this was the plot of an upcoming episode of Law and Order: SVU. Sadly, it’s a real life case torn from the New Orleans spin doctors try to gloss over with food, festivities and fun. My role is simple: join this voice for the voiceless who broke the bonds of her pain to ask why this predator hasn’t been arrested? I support police and prosecutors but also support victims overlooked or even ignored by some in the system. Women in this city run a gauntlet where sexual assault may come from men they know or strangers. Silence when one falls prey to this gauntlet means condoning its ugly existence. Justice for Kristen Crain means we are a civilized society, even if victims and advocates have to prod the powers that be to act like it. Nadra Enzi aka Cap Black, Creator of the Cap Black Street Patrol. *Walking Escorts* *Victim Advocacy* 504 214 3082. |
Safe Fun Companion expands upon my event safety creation by offering the same sober, aware presence for party goers usually allied with organizers, staff and patrons. In a occasion-overloaded city like New Orleans, this is a common sense service. 