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How Many Lives Do Amber Alerts Really Save?
- WarOnPrivacy 7mo agoAmber alerts were broadcast for only 1 in 1000 missing children in 2021 of issued Amber alerts, ¾ do not appear to help at all we may argue that even a low success rate is acceptable if it prevents a child from being murdered. The twist is that the issuance of Amber alerts is often too slow to thwart these extremely rare abominations. ¾ of children who are both abducted and murdered are killed within the first 3 hours of the kidnapping. on average, children who are recovered after what police deems a successful Amber alert are found 15 hours later.
- WarOnPrivacy 7mo agoGot a new phone today. The first two things I do to every handset are 1) root the device and 2) disable the alerts - all of them, especially presidential.
- dlcarrier 7mo agoAny time that's a regulation around safety, it's a pretty safe bet to assume no data was analyzed in the creation or renewal of that regulation. See also, everything the DHS does, especially the TSA.