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Calgary’s Police Chief is skeptical a large reward will help drum up leads in a bizarre missing persons case. [...] Police Chief Rick Hanson a reward will bring in more tips, but that doesn’t mean they’re helpful.
“If there’s a lot of money that’s created for a reward, frequently it increases the workload because you’ve got all kinds of people that step forward with information that may not even be related to it.”
http://www.inews880.com/2014/07/02/big-reward-not-likely-to-yield-big-results-in-amber-alert-case/
They ultimately decided not to offer a reward to keep the quality of the information coming in high. LE has already had to deal with misinformation (e.g., that AL was sighted in Brooks, which was found to be unfounded https://twitter.com/dcrHerald/status/485876840842543104/photo/1) Imagine if every Tom Dick and Harry started offering "tips" because they saw the reward as a $100k lotto...