Brute Reason

• 6.6 million people are stalked in one year in the United States.
• 1 in 6 women and 1 in 19 men have experienced stalking victimization at some point during their lifetime in which they felt very fearful or believed that they or someone close to them would be harmed or killed.
• The majority of stalking victims are stalked by someone they know. 66% of female victims and 41% of male victims of stalking are stalked by a current or former intimate partner.

So, stalking is pretty serious. You know what stalking isn’t? Perusing someone’s Facebook profile. Googling them. Reading their Twitter feed regularly. But those are all instances that you might, during the month of January, hear described in passing as “stalking.”