Around here, I've heard several times in the past few years about missing children of color or otherwise in my area. From memory I would guess about the same number as white children. Our police force is not full of a bunch of old white men ignoring missing children if their skin happens to look different. While I don't feel at least in BR that the LE are racist, they don't always let us know about the crimes involving people living "high risk lifestyles." I don't think that is fair, but somehow more acceptable to people. The motives of cities who do this could only be guessed unless we had someone on the inside, but I suspect most of these places would like to under-report all crimes to make their city look safer (JMO). And, maybe they think no one will notice. Thank goodness with Jaren people are seeing this and maybe will demand more from our LE in the future. It's just a serious shame that it took something like this for people to see it.
Jury, I sincerely hope that you don't think that there are that many racists in this country who wouldn't report missing children to the media because of their ethnicity. What an awful thought! I sure hope it isn't that way. I feel pretty confident in my LE that they will notify us of ANY missing children. If I'm proven wrong in the future, I will come back here and apologize for saying otherwise.
JMO