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Public perception of the lives of urban youth is that their home, and frequently school, lives are unstable.  So people don't take "missing" to mean abducted, but that their whereabouts are temporarily unknown to the person who reported them missing.

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(Former MPD officer here.)  This is far truer than most readers of this board would ever believe. The lives many of these kids live is outside the comprehension abilities of middle/upper income people. You just wouldn't even believe some of the stories I could tell you.

So the PP is correct - "missing" has an entirely different context for low income urban girls than girls from wealthy suburban families. [/quote]

I also work in criminal justice, and while I'm glad the #missingdcgirls is trending nationally (thank you Hollywood), the missing girls who are "temporarily unknown" are the ones we need to be helping as well.  Yes, abductions are rare and most of these girls are not being sold into HT rings, but are still at risk for abuse, drug use and prostration. Why should they be less deserving of our help?  [/quote]

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