99.8% of the children who go missing do come home.
Nearly 90% of missing children have simply misunderstood directions or miscommunicated their plans, are lost, or have run away.
9% are kidnapped by a family member in a custody dispute.
3% are abducted by non-family members, usually during the commission of a crime such as robbery or sexual assault. The kidnapper is often someone the child knows.
Only about 100 children (a fraction of 1%) are kidnapped each year in the stereotypical stranger abductions you hear about in the news.
not even possible. purposefully published disinformation. these numbers don't match up to anything in recent history or previous. is this a statistic before automobiles were invented??? seen this type of information on official websites, it's not humanly possible that 99.8% come home or for them to even reach that figure. if 99.8% come home, they have a lot of fucking questions to answer about the 0.2%, and they better make it fucking quick.
the number of offenders annually(don't even consider the older ones!!) NATIONWIDE and even in some single STATES, greatly out weighs these reported statistics and reflects poorly. this website needs an update and needs to get it's facts straight. this statistic would even be invalid in the year 1776!!!!!! you don't even have to be good at math to know this statistic is complete bs. please don't take it personally, it's just that "facts" like these get me angry because it has pizzagate written all over it! what they all exactly "running away" from?
The number of what offenders? Specifically what crime are you talking about. Use real stats if you can.
I think you completely misunderstand what these statistics are. The number of "stereotypical kidnappings of children" is quite rare. People seem to think hundreds of thousands of kids are being snatched away. It's simply isn't true. This is because they misinterpret what the high number of missing kids means. It's any report of any kid missing even for benign reasons like they got lost and didn't come home for two hours after they were expected. The number of missing children reported to law enforcement is in the hundreds of thousands. But almost of those children are found and accounted for. The vast majority of "kidnappings" are done by a parent involved in a custody dispute.
According the 2016 FBI statistics. There were about 647, 000 total reports of people missing in 2016, both adults and children. 99.5% of these reports were removed because, the person returned home, law enforcement found the person, or because the agency that entered the report found it to be invalid.
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Are_we_sure ago
500,000 are reported missing and well over 99% of them are found shortly afterwards. http://www.pollyklaas.org/about/national-child-kidnapping.html
National Child Kidnapping Facts
99.8% of the children who go missing do come home.
Nearly 90% of missing children have simply misunderstood directions or miscommunicated their plans, are lost, or have run away.
9% are kidnapped by a family member in a custody dispute.
3% are abducted by non-family members, usually during the commission of a crime such as robbery or sexual assault. The kidnapper is often someone the child knows.
Only about 100 children (a fraction of 1%) are kidnapped each year in the stereotypical stranger abductions you hear about in the news.
About half of these 100 children come home.
concernedvegan ago
not even possible. purposefully published disinformation. these numbers don't match up to anything in recent history or previous. is this a statistic before automobiles were invented??? seen this type of information on official websites, it's not humanly possible that 99.8% come home or for them to even reach that figure. if 99.8% come home, they have a lot of fucking questions to answer about the 0.2%, and they better make it fucking quick.
Are_we_sure ago
why is it not humanly possible?
what questions would they need to answer about the .2%
concernedvegan ago
the number of offenders annually(don't even consider the older ones!!) NATIONWIDE and even in some single STATES, greatly out weighs these reported statistics and reflects poorly. this website needs an update and needs to get it's facts straight. this statistic would even be invalid in the year 1776!!!!!! you don't even have to be good at math to know this statistic is complete bs. please don't take it personally, it's just that "facts" like these get me angry because it has pizzagate written all over it! what they all exactly "running away" from?
Are_we_sure ago
The number of what offenders? Specifically what crime are you talking about. Use real stats if you can.
I think you completely misunderstand what these statistics are. The number of "stereotypical kidnappings of children" is quite rare. People seem to think hundreds of thousands of kids are being snatched away. It's simply isn't true. This is because they misinterpret what the high number of missing kids means. It's any report of any kid missing even for benign reasons like they got lost and didn't come home for two hours after they were expected. The number of missing children reported to law enforcement is in the hundreds of thousands. But almost of those children are found and accounted for. The vast majority of "kidnappings" are done by a parent involved in a custody dispute.
According the 2016 FBI statistics. There were about 647, 000 total reports of people missing in 2016, both adults and children. 99.5% of these reports were removed because, the person returned home, law enforcement found the person, or because the agency that entered the report found it to be invalid.
For the records that give a reason for the person to be missing (about half of all reports ) abductions by a stranger accounts for .1%. https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/2016-ncic-missing-person-and-unidentified-person-statistics.pdf/view
DerivaUK ago
This only refers to the documented children. As we have learned, many are trafficked undocumented. There can be no statistics for these
Are_we_sure ago
trafficked is different from kidnapped. you need to understand that.
DerivaUK ago
Trafficking is the forced movement of kidnapped victims.