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I don't need it either, but it's uncaring to imagine that millions of people don't. A young woman was abducted recently on a local trail. I don't believe she's

by twr 10y ago

I don't need it either, but it's uncaring to imagine that millions of people don't. A young woman was abducted recently on a local trail. I don't believe she's been found yet. Perhaps this would have made some difference.

SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
But cant police use the tracking info already once you report someone missing? This just seems like a way for busybody and manipulative people to stir up drama.
- twr 10y ago
  It can take many hours to surmise that someone has been kidnapped. Getting people to pay direct attention to someone's whereabouts, without having to constantly nag the person, is a huge win. Anyone who has ever expected an at-risk person to make contact at an estimated time can relate how worrying it is when that person is delayed.
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- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > But cant police use the tracking info already once you report someone missing? 1. Police can, but won't until they consider it a missing person scenario, which oftdn involves considerable delay, at least for an adult -- and that's even if the police happen to prioritize that case. 2. For many people in various places for a variety of reasons, even aside from delay issues, the police aren't the first people they'd want to rely on. Or even on that list at all. > This just seems like a way for busybody and manipulative people to stir up drama There is some risk of that, but there's also empowerment of people to create their own effective support networks of real, personal trust.
  - SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
    Late reply: there are 800,000 missing persons cases in the US each year, but 12,000,000 victims of intimate partner violence. I just suspect that your solution to the smaller problem will make something that's a much larger problem (as in, more than an order of magnitude larger) worse.

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I don't need it either, but it's uncaring to imagine that millions of people don't. A young woman was abducted recently on a local trail. I don't believe she's

by twr 10y ago

SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
But cant police use the tracking info already once you report someone missing? This just seems like a way for busybody and manipulative people to stir up drama.
- twr 10y ago
  It can take many hours to surmise that someone has been kidnapped. Getting people to pay direct attention to someone's whereabouts, without having to constantly nag the person, is a huge win. Anyone who has ever expected an at-risk person to make contact at an estimated time can relate how worrying it is when that person is delayed.
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- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > But cant police use the tracking info already once you report someone missing? 1. Police can, but won't until they consider it a missing person scenario, which oftdn involves considerable delay, at least for an adult -- and that's even if the police happen to prioritize that case. 2. For many people in various places for a variety of reasons, even aside from delay issues, the police aren't the first people they'd want to rely on. Or even on that list at all. > This just seems like a way for busybody and manipulative people to stir up drama There is some risk of that, but there's also empowerment of people to create their own effective support networks of real, personal trust.
  - SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
    Late reply: there are 800,000 missing persons cases in the US each year, but 12,000,000 victims of intimate partner violence. I just suspect that your solution to the smaller problem will make something that's a much larger problem (as in, more than an order of magnitude larger) worse.