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I would take a $1000 bet with you that stalking cases by a known adversary outnumber child abduction by strangers. Not sure how to find the stats though.
by dannyobrien 3y ago
I would take a $1000 bet with you that stalking cases by a known adversary outnumber child abduction by strangers. Not sure how to find the stats though.
- iudqnolq 3y agoNot exactly the stat you wanted but more than 99% of kidnappings in the USA are by a parent who lost custody or a family member. See https://www.terrycralle.com/missing-children-statistics/ https://www.terrycralle.com/missing-children-statistics/
- AHOHA 3y agoI can tell that’s the case without looking at any stats, I’ve been monitoring AMBER alerts here in Canada for the past 4 years, and 100% of the cases are just parents taking their kids back, wasting a whole system resources for that ..
- iudqnolq 3y agoAMBER is generally a waste because it's oriented towards kidnappings by strangers. But kidnappings by parents aren't always no big deal: parents sometimes lose custody because they're a serious risk towards their children.
- pnw 3y agoThere’s a study that proposes AMBER is mostly crime control theater. It’s also fairly redundant given widespread ALPR. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249772258_Child_abduction_AMBER_alert_and_crime_control_theater https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249772258_Child_abd...