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SafeWise Team
By SafeWise Team
Sep 10, 2025
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Why you can trust SafeWise
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250+
research hours in 25+ in-home tests
10k+
years of combined experience
176+
homes and people protected
10M+

For over 12 years, SafeWise has conducted independent research and testing to write unbiased, human reviews (not robots). Read our methodology.

About SafeWise

SafeWise is dedicated to helping people live safer lives at home and in their communities. We provide home security and safety insights via years of proprietary data and crime trend analyses, hands-on product testing and reviews, and expert recommendations from in-house and outside leaders in home, personal, and family safety.

By contextualizing national crime and safety trends, SafeWise offers valuable information on how these issues impact individuals at home and in their neighborhoods. SafeWise experts have decades of experience as journalists, product testers, safety and compliance officers, homeowners, and community advocates.

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Media contact

Our writers and in-house safety experts can provide expert quotes, media appearances, and interviews. Reach out for safety insights and product recommendations on these topics:

  • Trends for property crime and violent crime, including the safest cities in the U.S.
  • Insights into how safe Americans feel and what they do (or don't do) to feel safer, from our proprietary nationwide surveys that talk to more than 10,000 Americans each year
  • How to protect homes against burglars and porch pirates (package thieves)
  • How to choose and use safety products, including the best home security systems and cameras, kids smartphones and gps trackers, senior medical alerts, and smart home gadgets
  • How to stay safe online — best safety practices and tools for social media and online dating, child internet safety, and protection against viruses and hacking
  • How smart home safety, child safety, and senior safety evolve over time
  • Emergency preparedness for natural disasters, fires, roadside emergencies, and more

If you have questions about SafeWise, our data studies and reports, or wish to schedule an interview, send us an email at [email protected].

Request an interview with our experts

Send interview requests to [email protected]. Please include “Interview Request” in the subject line of the email.

If your interview request is time-sensitive, please include your deadline for interviews in the subject line, (e.g. “Interview Request—September 9, 2025”).

Ask an expert

Our experts love working with journalists, bloggers, podcast hosts, community leaders, and more to share meaningful insights and helpful advice in the realms of home and community safety. We provide live or recorded interviews, expert quotes, press releases, safety and security recommendations, and guest posts.

Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards

Lead safety & tech reporter; Managing Editor

Rebecca is the primary spokesperson for SafeWise; send media inquiries to [email protected]

SafeWise editorial team experience

  • 175+ years of combined experience as journalists, bloggers, researchers, testers, and reviewers
  • 35+ years of combined experience as safety and security writers, testers, officers, etc. in community, home, academic, and digital realms

SafeWise 2024 coverage

  • 2,000+ online mentions, expert quotes, and features
  • 1,320+ broadcast features
  • Over 27 million estimated views across top-tier outlets online
  • Over 30 million viewers and listeners from TV, radio, and podcast broadcasts
  • 2024 Package Theft report included in the USPS Report on Package Theft in the United States
  • Featured on PBS NewsHour, Telemundo, The New York Times
Still shot of SafeWise lead reporter Rebecca Edwards on the Today Show talking about out 2024 Porch Pirate report.

Our lead safety reporter, Rebecca Edwards speaks to the Today Show about our 2024 package theft report, which found at least $6 billion in losses to porch pirates.

SafeWise in the news

Top coverage

 

Broadcast interviews

Safety reports and data studies

11th Annual Safest Cities Report Series
6th Annual State of Safety Survey
1st Annual State of Home Security Survey

SafeWise reports covered by top media

The Worst Metro Cities for Package Theft report was featured on PBS NewsHour, with an exclusive interview with Rebecca Edwards, our lead reporter and spokesperson.
Our spokesperson, Rebecca Edwards went on PBS NewsHour to talk about our 2024 Package Theft report and how to prevent getting your packages nabbed!

Rebecca Edwards, our spokesperson, talked to PBS NewsHour about our package theft report and offered tips to keep your packages out of the hands of porch pirates.

Safest cities in each state

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois

Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana

Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania

Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Other data studies & reports

Home safety
Crime
Driving
"NHTSA appreciates SafeWise.com’s continued efforts to share vehicle safety tips with your audience. Safer drivers and cars mean safer roadways, and your efforts are helping us save lives!"

—The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Child & family safety
Pets and animals
Smart home
Environment & natural disasters
Safety guides

Community Action

SafeWise is committed to creating safer communities through timely news, insightful data analysis, and community action.

Safe Rides Home
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In 2018 we launched the SafeWise for Safe Rides Home campaign. The campaign targets holidays when deaths and accidents from impaired driving spike.

We provide ridesharing credits to communities that see the biggest jumps to help cut down on impaired driving and make our nation’s streets safer for everyone.

Campaigns run

in Wyoming, South Carolina, North Dakota, New Mexico, Alabama, Montana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana 

202

Safe rides home given

Over $2,000

worth of Lyft credit donated

Road to Zero Coalition

We partner with the Road to Zero Coalition in our efforts to cut down roadway deaths across the country.

Cyberbullying and Online
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In 2019 we published our first annual Internet Safety Guide for Kids. As part of our efforts to support parents and educators, we provide multiple media interviews about the latest online threats and how to keep kids safe.

Our lead safety reporter also contributed cyberbullying tips and advice to the National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect.

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