Idaho State Police Hold Amber Alert Training In Bannock County
By: Lois Ricardi
No one ever wants to lose a child, but sadly each year 2,500 children go missing across the nation never to be seen or heard from again but one program may help bring this number down. National amber alert training was held in Pocatello Wednesday at the Idaho State Police. The training is meant to better prepare local law enforcement in the case that a child goes missing.
Eloise Skinner teaches eight different classes located all over the state. The classes are six hours long and nearly 170 law enforcement officers have signed up. Skinner feels the classes are extremely important because the problem isn’t just happening in other states it’s happening in ours.
Roughly 300 individuals are missing in Idaho each month. Officers are eager to bring this number down and have one goal in mind. “Hopefully we can save a life, get some information so that we can find a child that’s been abducted and clearly that’s the most important thing, is the children.” Says Lt. Eric Dayley with the Idaho State Police.
Training is great, but it should begin with “The Amber Alert is Not for Use in Parental Abductions.”
The Amber Alert was created to be used in stranger abductions where the child is believed to be in danger of being raped and killed. It was intended to get the public to be on the lookout for a criminal who just grabbed someone’s child.
It worked. People paid attention. Children who were in real danger were recovered.
Then the NCMEC got control of it and they create daily Amber Alerts for Parental Abductions so they can make their numbers look good and so they can have their name in front of people as often as possible to make you believe they are on the job. This gets them more funding.
But it also means that people pay very little attention to Amber Alerts now. A good thing gets created that can really help recover abducted or missing children and the NCMEC’s greed makes it ineffective.
Kudos to the NCMEC for the destruction of yet another valuable tool used to recover abducted children. it got you more funding though and that was your intention all the time, so you get what you wanted and the child abductors catch a break. This means the problem increases and you get even more funding.
That is exactly how it works. Just like other industries, the money people do not want a cure. They want to help us live with the problem.
Examples:
If the Pharmaceutical Companies made cures for diseases they would make less money than just making drugs that make you more comfortable with the disease. So guess which one they do.
Manufacturers have done enough research to know exactly how long a part is likely to last with most users. They do not increase the quality or create products that basically last forever because they would eventually make less money due to the fact we did not all have to run out and buy new parts over and over.
Fuels and other ideas that will get us better gas mileage have been held out of production for years because the oil companies would make less profit if we did not need oil more often.
Even Exterminators use chemicals they know only last about as long as it is until their next visit rather than using chemicals that last longer. If you have a monthly exterminator service, you begin to see bugs again in the last week of the month and are so happy to see your exterminator. They know you will be because they chose to use a chemical that lasts a little less than 30 days.
And the NCMEC would receive less funding if they actually came up with solutions rather than the appearance of effectiveness they now employ. It’s called busy work. Look like you are busy and no one will notice you are getting nothing done. In the meantime you still collect your paycheck.
That is a bad work habit for individuals and an extremely unethical plan for a nonprofit that claims to help mising children.
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