Proactive Public Awareness: AMBER Alerts

Abstract

The first three hours in child abduction cases are crucial to the
outcome and safe recovery of the victim. In 2006, the Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), within
the Department of Justice (DOJ), released a report that stated
shocking statistics. This report revealed that 76% of children
reported missing were found deceased within the first three
hours, and 88.5% of missing children were found deceased
within the first twenty-four hours after first reported missing.
1 The America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response
(AMBER) Alert System broadcasts emergency alerts to the public
to aid in the search for actively abducted children