What is the Safe Kids Security Council? We are like AIG and the All Blacks…

…Sort of.

Allow ourselves to introduce…ourselves. Like a good movie, we didn’t want to throw it up in your face in the first scene. We wanted to let you have a taste and then artfully make a proper introduction.

At this point, if you are following us, the purpose of the Safe Kids Security Council should be obvious. For the newbies, check out a couple stories and our motivations will be clear. We’d like to think of ourselves much in the same way that New Zealand’s national rugby union team, the All Blacks, is protrayed in this masterful commercial by the global insurance company, AIG — both figurativley and realistically. AIG drives home a solid point in their commercial — the company will be there for you before you even know you need them. The All Blacks deliver on this message for AIG in displays of athleticism and skills — likely a result of their experience on the rugby pitch.

The five of us have seen a lot of things we hope you never have to see, and like AIG, we want to be there for you before you need us to ensure this happens. The Safe Kids Security Council is looking to showcase child safety tips through our personal experiences as federal, state, and local law enforcement officers. Children are the future of this country and this world. Keeping them safer is something we believe is an attainable reality. This is an area we can make a significant impact.

The common thread of each member of this council is that we know what it is like to respond to an incident or tragedy involving children. The question we asked ourselves as we grouped up during a fateful interaction was this: what can we do to prevent those things we’ve seen from happening so we don’t have to respond? The answer we arrived at is to share those experiences with people. We chose Medium and other social media sites in order to boost prevention and reach an audience that has the potential to grow. Ideally, you, the audience, grow to be a critical mass and consequently, a tipping point for child safety awareness.

Individuals within our group have worked child related incidents ranging from minor bike accidents and child seat failures to human trafficking and sexual abuse. We are not saying we can prevent those things altogether but our hope is to mitigate them through education. Our goal is to bring a level of awareness to parents that triggers critical thinking when making decisions about or speaking with their children so, instead of operating on green — a traffic light metaphor for cruising through intersections of life without thinking — we are able to get parents to operate on yellow — having mindful wariness at those intersections. We hope this to be the case not just on the specific incidents we highlight, but in all aspects involving child safety.

Enjoy this fantastic AIG commercial with a phenomenal rugby team and while you watch it, maybe you can figure out why we posted it. Consider it a step in thinking critically.

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