The news emerging from Los Angeles this week is chilling. Authorities found a man in his 50s bound with duct tape inside his own vehicle in a parking structure on the 6100 block of West Century Boulevard, just outside LAX. After robbing the victim at gunpoint, the attacker tied him up and abandoned him until a security guard luckily discovered the scene. This incident shatters the illusion that reaching your car guarantees safety. Consequently, we must view parking structures as transition zones where we face the highest vulnerability. Standard “awareness” is no longer sufficient; therefore, we need to treat the walk to the car as a tactical event.
