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How many kids have actually been saved because of the Amber alert, vs the number of such alerts sent?

Well, they claim 830 successes.

Well, here's the very first item on that list of "successes": a custody dispute, where the "kidnapper" had dropped the child off with relatives.

And that's typical. This is what they claim as "successes": the non-custodial parent has the child. Rather than issuing an AMBER alert, maybe the police could have just called the relatives of the missing child?

February 29, 2016 - Hayden, AZ

A non-custodial father abducted his 2-year-old child after assaulting the child’s mother. An AMBER Alert was activated as the child was believed to be in imminent danger. Later, the abductor dropped the child off with relatives. Multiple people made the relatives aware of the AMBER Alert and the family notified law enforcement. The child was safely rescued and the abductor later arrested.

How many kids have actually been saved because of the Amber alert, vs the number of such alerts sent?

Well, they claim 830 successes. If you take it at face value, the program is an abject waste of money. They could improve road safety by a few percent and save more kids... and a whole lot more other people, too. That money would have been better spent on things like correct signage, and dividing roads which commonly have head-on accidents.

And there are thousands more that go missing for the few stories you posted about. I do think it is great whenever ANY missing person/child is found. I personally do not think it is right to allow this person tracking technology to be allowed. It WILL one day be used against our essential liberties, and then it will be too late. This all sound too Orwellian to me : )

Let look down that list of experts and see who we can influence. I have gone through my copy and removed the names of professors and anyone who is on our side (ACLU rep.). Most of them are Europeans, but a few look particlearly easy to influence.. like:

John B. Rabun --- Vice President and COO, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,
Arlington, USA. You can send an email to hotline@ncmec.org saing you hope that NCMEC is not stuping to incuraging censorship and talk a lot about Bartalsmann's conenction with the Nazi's. If they are not on our side (they havn't writen me back yeat so I don't know) you can go complain to there sponsors. There are a lot of computer co.'s on the list and they probable don't want to loose server sails because fewer people can put content on the net.

Marie-The're`se Huppertz (Microsoft Europe, European Affairs Office, Bruxelles) and Clare Gilbert (Vice President, General Counsel, AOL Europe, Lon- don, Great Britain) should also hear from /. And anyone who lives in Europe should look at the list of European law enforcement agencies that showed up.

There are plenty of ``just plane evil'' people there like the Internet Content Rating Association. If you want a good list of companies to boycott or call and threaten to boycott ceck out there sponcers list at www.icra.org.

Jeff

Let look down that list of experts and see who we can influence. I have gone through my copy and removed the names of professors and anyone who is on our side (ACLU rep.). Most of them are Europeans, but a few look particlearly easy to influence.. like:

John B. Rabun --- Vice President and COO, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,
Arlington, USA. You can send an email to hotline@ncmec.org saing you hope that NCMEC is not stuping to incuraging censorship and talk a lot about Bartalsmann's conenction with the Nazi's. If they are not on our side (they havn't writen me back yeat so I don't know) you can go complain to there . There are a lot of computer co.'s on the list and they probable don't want to loose server sails because fewer people can put content on the net.

Marie-The're`se Huppertz (Microsoft Europe, European Affairs Office, Bruxelles) and Clare Gilbert (Vice President, General Counsel, AOL Europe, Lon- don, Great Britain) should also hear from /. And anyone who lives in Europe should look at the list of European law enforcement agencies that showed up.

There are plenty of ``just plane evil'' people there like the Internet Content Rating Association. If you want a good list of companies to boycott or call and threaten to boycott ceck out there sponcers list at www.icra.org.

Jeff