Chicago - 'Emergency summit' on missing, endangered youth

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...r-summit-o-01212011,0,2824670.story?track=rss

By David Jackson
Tribune reporter
1:53 p.m. CST, January 21, 2011

Saying he is alarmed by the rate of attempted child abductions in the Chicago area -- as well as by the perceptions that the cases are handled less vigorously when they involve black and Latino youth -- U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., tomorrow will convene an “Emergency Summit on Missing and Endangered Children and Teens.”

More at link

 

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...missing-children-see-01222011,0,7758267.story

By Gary Marx and David Jackson
5:35 p.m. CST, January 22, 2011

At an emotionally-charged hearing on Chicago’s South Side Saturday, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush grilled top law enforcement officials about whether they respond forcefully enough when African-American and Hispanic children are reported missing or potentially abducted.

“I want to find out if there is a double standard and if there is, we want to erase it right here, right now,”
Rush told a panel of officials from the Chicago police, FBI and other agencies at the three-hour hearing.

 

[Cubby]

And sadly few media outlets outside of the Chicago Tribune and WGN are even reporting on this summit. :banghead:

I'm not even finding anything reported about this in the Chicago Defender.

http://www.chicagodefender.com/

 

[Cubby]

Found one more. Much of the same info, but CLTV is an affiliate of WGN.

http://www.cltv.com/news/wgntv-missing-children-summit-jan22,0,530480.story

Hopefully as more of these meetings occur more Chicago media outlets will cover this issue.