Online grooming is obviously very bad, but it doesn't seem like it's happening very much. Hope for Justice reports ~8,600 cases in 2022 [0], but there were 72.5

Online grooming is obviously very bad, but it doesn't seem like it's happening very much. Hope for Justice reports ~8,600 cases in 2022 [0], but there were 72.5 million kids in the US that year [1], so that's just .01% of kids. Like, if this is the threshold, we need to go after gun violence and car dependence, because in 2023 firearms killed 4,733 kids and cars killed 4,048 [2]. We need to go after air pollution (wood and gas stoves) which are crazy murderous to kids [3]. Do we really think we'll make a significant dent in that (very low) number by backdooring encrypted messaging apps? Do we even know how much of this is happening over encrypted messaging apps vs. just straight up X and Instagram? Honestly all I want here is an actual fig leaf, not someone spraying a fig leaf air freshener, not someone singing a whispery folk song about a fig leaf from long ago, not someone opening a can of fig leaf La Croix. [0]: https://hopeforjustice.org/news/online-grooming-and-child-sexual-exploitation-in-the-u-s/ https://hopeforjustice.org/news/online-grooming-and-child-se... [1]: https://www.childstats.gov/AMERICASCHILDREN/tables/pop1.asp https://www.childstats.gov/AMERICASCHILDREN/tables/pop1.asp [2]: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/2024-01/2023-june-cgvs-u-s-gun-violence-in-2021-v3.pdf https://publichealth.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/2024-01/202... [3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8296171/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8296171/