“If you google tenant-landlord murder, you’ll see,” Carrie Rios said.

The former traffic cop pushes her tortoiseshell glasses up her nose and surveys her class of property managers and landlords, who have so far failed to match her pep at 9 in the morning. The poster behind her commemorates a 1948 campaign against rent control: Freedom is everybody’s business, it reads.

“So many cases!” she said, grinning and shaking her head. “That’s why this class is so important.”

On a gray February day at the offices of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles, 11 landlords and property managers have enrolled in a two-and-a-hour self-defense class to protect themselves from “irate tenants,” “transients” and the other hazards of life in the private housing business. The course teaches them how to stop life-threatening bleeding, maintain “360 degrees of awareness,” take cover from bullets and disarm shooters.

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