pedogate mentioned (negatively) in the article.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tweets-stats-and-confusion-the-case-of-dcs-missing-girls/2017/04/02/c35dde3c-161f-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html You have to love this"When it comes to the approximately 19,000 people reported missing in the District since 2012, 16 cases remain unsolved." 19.000 since 2012. That almost 4,000 per year. So it is not a spike - it is just business as usual!