Accurate Reporting?

A quick search of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) will provide the following information for the period 07-01-06 thru 07-15-06.

Endangered missing 2
Endangered Runaway 10
Family abductions 0
Hague cases 0
Lost, Injured, missing 0
Missing 0
Non Family abductions 1
Unidentified 0
Unknown 0

There according to Department of Justice statistics, over 800,000 reported missing children every year. That would be @67,000 per month.

If the cases reported to NCMEC have been resolved, may be they should add a category. There is a major discrepancy between @67,000 per month historically reported missing and so far this month, 13 missing children, all between the ages of 14-18 years old?

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Mountain or molehill

We have all heard the saying about making mountains out of molehills. When you view the missing children statistics, they claim approximately 800k children are reported missing each year, while another 500k are missing that are never reported. In fact there are over 2,100 missing children per day!


A search of the NCMEC site for Missing children from 01-01-06 thru 07-05-06 revealed there were 514 missing children. If you view the period 06-01-06 thru 07-05-06 it revealed:

Total missing children 106

Endangered missing 0
Endangered Runaway 86
Family abductions 0
Hague cases 0
Lost, Injured, missing 4
Missing 14
Non Family abductions 2
Unidentified 0
Unknown 0

I realize they may not post those cases “resolved” regardless of the outcome, but it seems a far cry from 800k. Are they resolved before being sent to the NCMEC? Are they deleted once resolved. Or is it making a mountain out of a molehill as to the number of actual occurrences involving missing children? Depends on your view.

Time flies...

Next time you are just “killing” time you might want to think about what else is happening.

FBI Statistics.

Finger pointing?

Most people would agree that missing children are considered a national issue. That appears to be why there is a National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). So, why are there 116 Amber Alert systems? Why does the criteria differ by state?