Are college women too trusting? In 2004, Inside Edition enlisted the help of Steve Kardian to find out. He posed as a stranger needing assistance on the campus of a university in the New York area. With the school’s permission, the producers filmed Steve with a hidden camera as he approached female students in a campus parking lot and pretended he needed help. With no hesitation, all eight of the women he approached cleared off seats and invited Steve into their vehicles.

 The results surprised even Steve, a career law enforcement and safety expert. When asked later, the women said that danger crossed their minds but that they decided that it was more important to “help someone out.” Steve stressed to the women afterwards that a woman should never allow a stranger to take her to a second location. Doing so greatly increases the odds of a sexual assault, or worse.

Steve Kardian is the nation’s go-to expert on issues of women’s safety.  In addition to his work as a consultant for Inside Edition, he is a national media consultant for Fox News, CBS, NBC, Men’s Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, and Sports Illustrated. As a career law enforcement officer, detective, counter-terrorism specialist and chief crime investigator, Steve has a demonstrated lifelong passion for issue of personal safety, particularly as it applies to young women. Through his media and consulting work, Steve has helped millions of young women better understand their role in preventing assault.

Personally, he has trained tens of thousands of women to be safer in their homes, on their campuses, and in their communities. Although his campus programs deal with some seriously scary topics, Steve gets his audiences laughing, sharing, and interacting. His programs are not about scaring women. They are about empowering women, and preparing them with the confidence to react appropriately in an unfortunate situation. Steve is about prevention foremost, but he’s also committed to helping women know what to do when the worst happens.

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