So give me absolute power, I promise to use it responsibility so there shouldn't be any worries, right? One of our biggest strategic errors is constantly acting like we need them to agree with us before we act like we're right.

*No one we allow to rule over us gives a fuck.

FTFY

You can't arrest children simply because they are missing, you just have to conjure up pesky things like evidence of a crime and then you're golden.

Not with that attitude.

ICE says "Yes, we can!"

Your period fell outside the parentheses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_E._King_Jr.

I know, it gives me the heebie jeebies to end a URL with a period too.

Edit: Oh, this looks like the editor also get the heebie jeebs; it's not you, it's lemmy.

Yeah, there's no way that many children are actually disappearing permanently per year - unless you include ICE abductions.

This is good they are found. What is concerning is why number is so high in the first place. Europe estimates are between 170 to 300 thousands

Yeah, this is actually an argument that QAnon uses. All of those missing children must have been kidnapped by Satanists trying to get their adrenochrome or something.

What actually happens is the kid goes missing, the parent panics and calls the police...and then the kid shows up later, because they were off doing something that they forgot to tell their parents about (or didn't want to tell their parents about).

So that's still a couple of hundred missing a year?

They're already using flock cameras to support speeding tickets.

Half a million kids go missing?

If I remember correctly it’s mostly kids that runaway get reported as missing and then are found within a day. Or it’s when one parent kidnaps the child. Basically custody battle stuff.

A small number is actual kidnapping by strangers or trafficking.

It's extremely misleading. It's every time parents call the cops because they can't find their kid. Many are resolved within hours. Almost all are resolved peacefully. If your kid is a habitual runaway each time you report they didn't go to school or come home counts as one. After kids being assholes the number 2 cause is non-custodial parents.

About 1 in 10,000 aren't found or found alive. So 50 or 60 kids out of 84M that are under 18 at any given time are grabbed by predators or die whilst running away (hint OD)

Its seems weird because its probably made up, its the common rule of the internet - not everything is true.

Edit: The lower bound is actually true for the USA, see other comments for explanation.

So I did a quick search because that number seemed absurd, even for a developing country like the US, and it's in the right ballpark, but according to the sources "most are found and returned to safety". Most are runaways (92%), and about a third of the remaining 8% are abductions by strangers (would work out to about 13000), and that is disturbing, if true.

If you read the Epstein files, most of those children were never categorized as missing, runaway or anything similar.

The missing children? That's not a made-up number...

That's concerning, maybe the rich eat them at that rate ?

So what if most missing kids are resolved within hours?

It does not negate the fact that cops are abusing flock. Also, okay 50 - 60 kids out of 84 million are grabbed by predators or die whilst running away, like you said, this abused technology should be used to help find them, all 460K of them reported missing every year in the US, including those that are resolved in hours instead of this type of authoritarian misuse.

A overprotective mother calls in about a missing kid, cop does their damn job, doesn't abuse AI-assisted, authoritarian-enabling cameras to tell the mother within minutes to call their damn neighbor. Imagine that happening instead of this type of bullshit.

But hey, you keep licking those boots.

https://banthecams.org/posts/2026/08/05/flock-camera-used-for-weed-search-and-mandated-at-dispensary/

But tbh, why do you think the cops would be honest about it? "PrObABlE cAuSe"