I think part of it is that stat has been juiced by a bunch of police reports where a divorced dad doesn’t return his kids to his divorced wife until 10pm on Sunday night when they were supposed to be back at 5pm, so she calls the cops and reports them as “missing” to try to screw him out of shared custody. Now there’s a police report on file to use against him in court. The police themselves just call the dad and the situation is cleared up by 10:30pm, but it benefits the police to include it in the paperwork as a “solved crime” so it looks like they’re out in the streets, busting their ass to rescue missing kids, when really all they did was make a phone call to settle down a domestic squabble. Then the non-profits get ahold of the stats and they’re incentivized to go along with it because it helps them fundraise.
They do a similar thing with “school shootings”. They like to report there were “25,000” school shootings throughout the year, and people go, “Huh? I remember like maybe three. If that.” The way they do that is by juicing the stats. I remember one of those “school shootings” was a teacher accidentally discharging his firearm in the parking lot. One bullet, straight into the pavement, but technically the parking lot was part of the “school”, and technically a gun was “shot”, so it’s a “school shooting”.
Yea, I think you’re on to at least a big part of that number.
I remember a few years back my house got broken into. They didn’t get anything from me as my neighbor saw them go in and called Police. The police busted them and found their car full of other people’s stuff. A year or two later, I got called to the Police department property room to collect my “stuff”. I went down there, saw the stuff and told them it wasn’t my stuff. They read my name, I said yes, They said, “Take your stuff” and pushed it toward me. I repeated, “its not my stuff”. He then said, “Look, we don’t know who’s it is, nobody claimed it, yours is the open case and we are NOT giving back to the thieves. Here is YOUR stuff. Take it. You do what you want with it and we close a case”...
I think part of it is that stat has been juiced by a bunch of police reports where a divorced dad doesn’t return his kids to his divorced wife until 10pm on Sunday night when they were supposed to be back at 5pm, so she calls the cops and reports them as “missing” to try to screw him out of shared custody. Now there’s a police report on file to use against him in court. The police themselves just call the dad and the situation is cleared up by 10:30pm, but it benefits the police to include it in the paperwork as a “solved crime” so it looks like they’re out in the streets, busting their ass to rescue missing kids, when really all they did was make a phone call to settle down a domestic squabble. Then the non-profits get ahold of the stats and they’re incentivized to go along with it because it helps them fundraise.
They do a similar thing with “school shootings”. They like to report there were “25,000” school shootings throughout the year, and people go, “Huh? I remember like maybe three. If that.” The way they do that is by juicing the stats. I remember one of those “school shootings” was a teacher accidentally discharging his firearm in the parking lot. One bullet, straight into the pavement, but technically the parking lot was part of the “school”, and technically a gun was “shot”, so it’s a “school shooting”.
Yea, I think you’re on to at least a big part of that number.
I remember a few years back my house got broken into. They didn’t get anything from me as my neighbor saw them go in and called Police. The police busted them and found their car full of other people’s stuff. A year or two later, I got called to the Police department property room to collect my “stuff”. I went down there, saw the stuff and told them it wasn’t my stuff. They read my name, I said yes, They said, “Take your stuff” and pushed it toward me. I repeated, “its not my stuff”. He then said, “Look, we don’t know who’s it is, nobody claimed it, yours is the open case and we are NOT giving back to the thieves. Here is YOUR stuff. Take it. You do what you want with it and we close a case”...