The first question they ask themselves: Is this a soft target?
Dont be so quick to respond as the answer may surprise you.
How do you know if you are a soft target?
The term soft target hails from the defense intelligence community.
It can be applied structurally to buildings such as your home or office.
In other words, is that building, car or person an easy mark?
The opposite of a soft target is a hard target.
Consider this to be the base level oftactical home defense.
Similar assessment applies to vehicles.
Soft Target Indicatorsclue the predator in that you could be a potential target (victim or prey).
There are no rules set in stone that determine exactly what is a soft target indicator.
However, anything that the predator may observe about you that tells him Yup, this one right here.
Heres your next victim!
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Predators often observe multiple targets and throughout the observation process may locate and identify three or four potential targets.
Upon further evaluation he ultimately bases his decision based squarely on those identified soft target indicators.
