Moosemedic
Member
OK, I know I'm going to start a Flame war with this, but I've got to ask the question;
What's everyone's definition of an Amber Alert? I'm not talking the actual definition, I guess I'm asking what the group's opinion of an actual Amber Alert is?
In my personal opinion, I thin of an Amber Alert event such as a 5 year old snatched from a Daycare center by an UNKNOWN person.
A child gets off the bus, and hasn't been seen since....... BIGTIME scare
The Child in the Ft. Collins area that was a near miss, being grabbed out of the family yard, he'd have been a REAL Amber Alert.
These Amber Alerts this week for an overdue 16 year old girl, goes out with friends the night before, out too late, out with someone she shouldn't have been, etc. We know she showed up, within hours of the "alert", but nothing more was said. If she's at fault fine her, if you dont' feel that's right, charge the parents with careless parenthood or something.
The current "Amber Alert" moving from West to East here in Denver is not even a custody battle. Some guy and his girlfriend get in a physical altercation, he grabs THIER son and departs. A crime? Oh yeah, but an "Amber Alert" There are plenty of people that know where that child is; That's my point!
I USED to get Amber Alerts sent by Text Message to my Cell, as I'm driving around I'd keep an eye out. Call it a civilian BOLO. But as with LEO's and BOLO's are you really writing down and looking for all these "Attempt to Locate, 46 year old Male from San Diego, headed for Kansas City, late model Ford" Well I'm not looking delinquent teenagers, or custody disputes.
The sad part is I believe that others are numb to the REAL emergency as well. I don't want to miss the REAL Amber Alert, a Child in need.
What's everyone's definition of an Amber Alert? I'm not talking the actual definition, I guess I'm asking what the group's opinion of an actual Amber Alert is?
In my personal opinion, I thin of an Amber Alert event such as a 5 year old snatched from a Daycare center by an UNKNOWN person.
A child gets off the bus, and hasn't been seen since....... BIGTIME scare
The Child in the Ft. Collins area that was a near miss, being grabbed out of the family yard, he'd have been a REAL Amber Alert.
These Amber Alerts this week for an overdue 16 year old girl, goes out with friends the night before, out too late, out with someone she shouldn't have been, etc. We know she showed up, within hours of the "alert", but nothing more was said. If she's at fault fine her, if you dont' feel that's right, charge the parents with careless parenthood or something.
The current "Amber Alert" moving from West to East here in Denver is not even a custody battle. Some guy and his girlfriend get in a physical altercation, he grabs THIER son and departs. A crime? Oh yeah, but an "Amber Alert" There are plenty of people that know where that child is; That's my point!
I USED to get Amber Alerts sent by Text Message to my Cell, as I'm driving around I'd keep an eye out. Call it a civilian BOLO. But as with LEO's and BOLO's are you really writing down and looking for all these "Attempt to Locate, 46 year old Male from San Diego, headed for Kansas City, late model Ford" Well I'm not looking delinquent teenagers, or custody disputes.
The sad part is I believe that others are numb to the REAL emergency as well. I don't want to miss the REAL Amber Alert, a Child in need.