I don't consider a missing child to be a 'puzzle'.
A puzzle is a game.
A missing child is many things: a crisis, an emergency, and sometimes sadly a tragedy in the end....but I never see it as a 'puzzle'.
If it were your child out there--- in 20 degree weather somewhere, alone, injured, or worse---would you want LE to tell you it's a 'puzzle'??
No, I didn't care for that speech.... Whoever wrote it, needs to examine their heart.
From a quick Google search on the definition of puzzle:
puz·zle - verb
cause (someone) to feel confused because they cannot understand or make sense of something.
"one remark he made puzzled me"
Similar: perplex, confuse, bewilder, bemuse, baffle, mystify, confound, nonplus, throw, set someone thinking, flummox, discombobulate, faze, stump, beat, fog, wilder, gravel, maze, pose, obfuscate, perplexed, confused, bewildered, bemused, baffled, mystified, confounded, nonplussed, at a loss, at sea, flummoxed, discombobulated, stumped, fazed, clueless, without a clue, bushed, wildered, gravelled, mazed, difficult/hard to understand, baffling, perplexing, mystifying, bewildering, confusing, complicated, unclear, beyond one, above one's head, mysterious, enigmatic, ambiguous, paradoxical, obscure, abstruse, unfathomable, inexplicable, incomprehensible, impenetrable, cryptic, oracular, wildering
noun
a game, toy, or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge.
Seems accurate to me.
