S. Gale Bleth: How a Retired Crime Prevention Officer Made Decades of Safety Expertise a Bestseller

S. Gale Bleth has been a certified self-defense instructor with R.A.D. Systems since 2000. She worked in higher education at California State University, East Bay, for sixteen years and spent another sixteen years as a Crime Prevention Specialist for the Hayward Police Department teaching personal safety to the Hayward community and other organizations. She also served as the state board president of the California Crime Prevention Officers' Association (CCPOA). An alumna of California State University, she then earned her master's degree from Saint Mary's College. Though retired, she continues to actively teach personal safety. She lives in California and Arizona.