re: South Carolina - 6 year old missing Update OP: Sat 2/26 Neighbor did it. Confirmed

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I can certainly see both sides of this issue. The problem is, if amber alerts go out every time police are notified that a kid is missing then nobody is going to pay attention to them.

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I get it but this seems like a great time to use it, it has all the makings of something very very wrong.

Whereas usually it's a latino dude taking back his kid for 24 hours, he gets arrested, kid is fine like 99% of the time. I'm not faulting Amber Alerts in those scenarios because you never know - but that's the fact pattern that causes people to ignore them (and to be clear, most people already do ignore them).