Missing White Woman Syndrome

[GURPS]

Racial bias affects media coverage of missing people. A new tool illustrates how​

It's no secret that missing person cases across the United States are becoming way more common — as the numbers continue to increase each year.

On average, more than 600,000 people go missing in the U.S. each year, according to the National Crime Information Center. Research shows that in 2021 alone, nearly 521,000 people were reported missing across the U.S. — with 40% of those cases being missing persons of color.

And sadly, 38% of people who go missing in the U.S. are Black, which is double the U.S. Black population of about 14%, according to the Black and Missing Foundation.

"I will say this, we are not naive to believe that every missing persons case will get national media attention," Natalie Wilson, co-founder of the Black and Missing Foundation — a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness to missing persons of color — told NPR.

Wilson said the nonprofit not only brings awareness to missing people of color across the U.S. but goes beyond the extra mile and helps families in the search for their missing loved one.

 

[Clem72]

Why does this article say it's going up each year, when other articles and the FBI NCIC report say that 521k number from 2021 is the lowest number since they started keeping count in 1975?

They also don't mention how many people stay missing, which is also available in this report.

During 2021, 521,705 missing person records were entered into NCIC. Missing person records purged during the same period totaled 485,082.

And

When the MPC field was utilized in 2021 entries, 231,303 (94.5 percent) entries were coded as Runaway

They also state that 30% of these records are juveniles, so do the math. 70% of this 521k missing persons are adults who run away from home, the overwhelming majority of which are found. Most of the rest are juveniles who run away but are also found.

 

[Kyle]

It would be interesting to see how many of the missing were involved in criminal activity prior to going missing, at how much that reduces the number.

 

[GURPS]

Seems like another solution looking for a problem, how many black really care, is this more progressive white knighting

 

[Monello]

I'm so old, I remember reading media stories where everything negative didn't affect black & brown people disproportionately.

Thanks obama.

 

[vraiblonde]

Who is in charge of the news we see?

That's right - white liberal Democrats.

So if they choose not to report on missing black people, yet go on a feeding frenzy over missing white people, who is the racist here?

That's right - white liberal Democrats.

 

[Hijinx]

Those damned white supremacists are driving POC women from their homes.

Natalie Wilson, co-founder of the Black and Missing Foundation

I believe for the purposes of this article we can change the definition of POC to black.

I am sure in my mind that Ms. Wilson could care less about Chinese, Japanese, Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islanders.