Editorial Column

Read the most recent editor column from experts in law enforcement, fire services and roadway assistance fields.

• Suppose You Called for Help and Nobody Came

  When you are riding out to help others in an emergency, you have one perception of time. But what about the person (s) waiting for you to come? Are you really arriving quickly or do you just think that you are?

• Responder Safety Lauds New CDC Safety Effort

  It is with a great deal of pride that we here at Respondersafety.com salute a new effort by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They will now study those situations where law enforcement officers dies in ‘struck-by’ incidents.

• Where We Are Today

  As I traveled through Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Every time that I saw emergency lights up ahead of me on the side of the road, I saw the truck drivers slowing down and moving rapidly to the left as they approached the vehicles.