This seems like over-reporting to me. That'd be over 9k kids per state, if divided equally (which I know can't be).
I know it's a problem and know there's pedos, I'd just like better breakdowns. I feel like I'd see a lot more people talking about losing kids all the time.
All that said, I could see lower income/those who are timid of law enforcement either not reporting, not getting the attention (news carers to beautiful and wealth vs), or being bribed/blackmailed.
What I'm saying is, I want to see more facts behind these numbers. ?
I would wager the majority of the ones that are actually missing are ones taken in custody battles, or taken by other family members for the same reason, to either protect the kids from a hostile parent or as revenge for losing a custody battle.
Having said that, even if its 75% of that USA number is custody battles, that leaves over 100K missing children, a VERY high number.
Thanks for a rational post on this topic. It's madness to suggest half-a-million kids are literally disappearing every year.
So let's consider California as an example. US population = 330M. California population = 40M. 40/330 = 12%. So CA has 12% of the US population. 12% of 460,000 missing kids = 55,000. Two biggest population centers in CA are LA and SF bay area. If 25,000 kids went missing EVERY YEAR, in SF or LA, could that go unnoticed? What happens to them? Where are they kept?
Why would 15-16 year olds be any different? They still attend school, they still have parents, and their absence/disappearance would be noticed. Think about it - 3 kids disappearing per school, per year .... (130,000 K-12 schools in the US; 460,000 kids = 3 per school on average).
This seems like over-reporting to me. That'd be over 9k kids per state, if divided equally (which I know can't be).
I know it's a problem and know there's pedos, I'd just like better breakdowns. I feel like I'd see a lot more people talking about losing kids all the time.
All that said, I could see lower income/those who are timid of law enforcement either not reporting, not getting the attention (news carers to beautiful and wealth vs), or being bribed/blackmailed.
What I'm saying is, I want to see more facts behind these numbers. ?
A better statistic would be how many reports are resolved within 7, 14 and 30 days. But good statistics is avoided worse than free thought these days.
I would wager the majority of the ones that are actually missing are ones taken in custody battles, or taken by other family members for the same reason, to either protect the kids from a hostile parent or as revenge for losing a custody battle.
Having said that, even if its 75% of that USA number is custody battles, that leaves over 100K missing children, a VERY high number.
Best I can tell, the percentage of non family abductions is less than 1%. The majority are runaways.
The amberalerts have some of thar info in their yearly reports. https://amberalert.ojp.gov/statistics
Thanks for a rational post on this topic. It's madness to suggest half-a-million kids are literally disappearing every year.
So let's consider California as an example. US population = 330M. California population = 40M. 40/330 = 12%. So CA has 12% of the US population. 12% of 460,000 missing kids = 55,000. Two biggest population centers in CA are LA and SF bay area. If 25,000 kids went missing EVERY YEAR, in SF or LA, could that go unnoticed? What happens to them? Where are they kept?
What if they are 15-16 and "run away" from home?
Why would 15-16 year olds be any different? They still attend school, they still have parents, and their absence/disappearance would be noticed. Think about it - 3 kids disappearing per school, per year .... (130,000 K-12 schools in the US; 460,000 kids = 3 per school on average).
Thought about it, yeah, you're right.
There appear to be many trying to sow disinfo to discredit us.
An age breakdown would be good. A LOT of these are either teenagers that ran away. Lots of non custodial parent abductions too.
OK, so this page links to PDFs of Amber alerts issued by year. Shows stuff like average time to recovery, issued per state ect. Pretty interesting.