▲ 949 ▼ Missing children don't pay the salary of our boys in blue (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 week ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/DeFlock@sh.itjust.works 85 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Lysergid@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago (3 children) This is good they are found. What is concerning is why number is so high in the first place. Europe estimates are between 170 to 300 thousands permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago It's because a missing child is not the same as an abducted child. If you don't know where your child is, you tell the police. They radio the miscellaneous patrol cars and they inevitably find the six year old trying to walk somewhere silly within a few hours. That's a missing person report. Divorce going poorly. One parent thinks the other shouldn't get any custody. So they pick the kid up from school when it's not their turn and go to their parents house. That's a missing person and child abduction. Basically, it's a category error. We're All tracking the same things, but our huge category has the same name as their narrow one. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 child) Apparently 90% of missing children are runaways. Maybe that is more common in the US or maybe it's just differences in counting (for example some countries might count 16 or 17 year olds as adults for these purposes). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago It's cataloging differences. The EU number is by outcome, and the US is by how the report started. The US is saying there were 400k times someone was concerned about not knowing where a kid was for any reason. For the same "stereotyped kidnapping" category the US is roughly the same, with 50-400 per year depending on how you count them. More than ideal but not a public policy crisis. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago I think that’s because Americans are more likely to call the cops in this situation permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago It's because a missing child is not the same as an abducted child. If you don't know where your child is, you tell the police. They radio the miscellaneous patrol cars and they inevitably find the six year old trying to walk somewhere silly within a few hours. That's a missing person report. Divorce going poorly. One parent thinks the other shouldn't get any custody. So they pick the kid up from school when it's not their turn and go to their parents house. That's a missing person and child abduction. Basically, it's a category error. We're All tracking the same things, but our huge category has the same name as their narrow one. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 child) Apparently 90% of missing children are runaways. Maybe that is more common in the US or maybe it's just differences in counting (for example some countries might count 16 or 17 year olds as adults for these purposes). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago It's cataloging differences. The EU number is by outcome, and the US is by how the report started. The US is saying there were 400k times someone was concerned about not knowing where a kid was for any reason. For the same "stereotyped kidnapping" category the US is roughly the same, with 50-400 per year depending on how you count them. More than ideal but not a public policy crisis. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago It's cataloging differences. The EU number is by outcome, and the US is by how the report started. The US is saying there were 400k times someone was concerned about not knowing where a kid was for any reason. For the same "stereotyped kidnapping" category the US is roughly the same, with 50-400 per year depending on how you count them. More than ideal but not a public policy crisis. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago I think that’s because Americans are more likely to call the cops in this situation permalink fedilink source parent
