Anyone know if this safety app is legitimate?

The learn more link is a guy that was a cop talking. So it might be legit but legit in a way that you will be dealing with a person that used to be a cop but no longer has authority. There was a lot of past tense in the video.

If it was real thing it would pretty much be a way to prioritize the police for the affluent. And I see that causing a massive problem since everyone pays for the police. My instinct is that this is basically paying to talk to Paul Blart.

How odd that they say “911 is “50’s-vintage”. 911 didn’t start until the 1970s and touch tone phones. It wasn’t even universal i the US until the 1990’s.

And, this app runs into the same structural issue as 911. You need to have someone available at the time of an incident, and a person can only deal with one incoming call at a time. But in a real emergency, a private security officer is not authorized to do much, and would be calling the police for you. So, a call to 911 just gets delayed as you go through a security company.

It’s an interesting concept. I wouldn’t say that it’s useless out of hand, but … it’s only useful to the extent that people cannot or will not take responsibility for their own defense. She could just as easily have pulled a gun from her purse as her phone. Why should she not be allowed to do that instead?

Even if the app is real, and she can get the phone out of her purse in time, turn on the phone and go through whatever screen lock she has, activate the app, get a response (because as the video said, that’s not instantaneous even when calling 911), get an adequately lighted video / photo of the perpetrator, have the respondent say something in a language that the potential attacker understands – and can hear over ambient noise – and assuming the perpetrator is ambling along as this one did (most perps seem to prefer a fast strike after picking their target, not this kind of walkabout scenario), and the perp is not drugged, desperate or drunk too much to understand and make a rational response … hello? Rational response? If he was rational he would not be stalking her in the first place. Even if all of the above occurs … the guy may decide, “the hell with it, I want that purse / that car / that ass” and then it’s just another unsolved crime, but this time with a video. Meanwhile, she’s out a purse, a car, beat up, raped or dead – or all of the above.

She could have pulled a revolver, pointed it with two hands and said, “Decide.” Depending on his decision (and her own level of training and resolve) the issue is over in two seconds or less, with her walking to her car with “another success story for armed self-defense” under her belt.