Apologies. I personally wouldn't consider anything said by a family itself to be 'made by the general public' however. Also the LE currently involved appears to be the local township police, primarily, which seems a disservice considering the township population is something like 1/10th the size of that of the area that it centers around whom has a different LE agency whom to my knowledge has not made any official comment after 5 days.
It is sad though that possible leads could be overlooked by 'sticking to known facts' when clearly this site too considers other possibilities, such as "Assuming that the last place where he was seen driving is her workplace, then it appears to be very close, according to this map" whereas that is not a known fact but an assumption too, not one released by LE directly and I myself am very familiar with the area and could tell you that block is pretty much houses. Same like I could tell more about the park area but hey, I'm not MSM or LE...
Welcome, TopAut! Glad you joined and shared your thoughts. It does help us to have someone who is familiar with the area.
I am not, and I sincerely apologize that my earlier post upset you when I said that the last known place where Jerome was seen driving was probably his girlfriend's work place.
I had assumed that to be true because he disappeared right after he dropped her off at work. That just seemed logical to me, but I
do see your point. It
was wrong for me to assume that. It was not stated as such in any of the articles.
I appreciate you correcting that fact for me too.
The reason it even came up was because we were trying to estimate the distance between where he was last seen and the location of his vehicle. Again I'm very sorry my statement was misleading. It too should not be allowed. I'll flag that post myself.
Please don't feel bad though about having difficulty understanding all the TOS. Those of us who have been here much longer still often have to stop and think whether our posts are violating any rules.
After you're here though for awhile, you'll understand them better, and I bet will come to appreciate the high standards of WS.
We're allowed to offer our opinions as long as they are clearly labeled as such. Statements though about the people involved have to be backed up by a link from a mainstream media source.
We can provide links for Facebook but we can't discuss the comments on them, unless they are included in a MSM source.
Many people agree with you that comments posted by family on FB should not be considered rumors.
However, I believe WS's policy is based on the belief that it can't be proven that the family member was the one who actually made that comment.
Theoretically, that comment could have been made by anyone else, posing as that family member.
There are exceptions to the FB comment rule, notably for the administrators of the official 'find the person' pages, but a mod will usually explain if they are allowed in a particular case.
So hang in there with us; we're glad you're here.
Looking forward to any information you can provide...
JMO
