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AudibleNod OP t1_j1zcp4m wrote

Texas already has a host of alerts in addition to the well known AMBER Alert.

There's AMBER, Silver, Blue, Endangered Missing Person, Clear and Camo. I don't think a Camo alert has been issued yet. So, seeing Colorado try out MIPA seems like a good sign.

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compelx t1_j1zpzqj wrote

Well, to be fair, it is a Camo alert. It’s difficult to see.

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TimeTravellerSmith t1_j20sti5 wrote

What's the purpose of so many individual mission person alerts?

I kinda get Amber vs "Adult" but what's the point in specific alerts for kids, adults, indigenous, old people, cops, military, etc?

Like, what's the difference between issuing a missing person alert with a description and a "special" missing person alert with the same description?

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AudibleNod OP t1_j20u6mg wrote

For AMBER and Clear alerts there's the potential that a kidnapping happened. For Silver, CAMO and Endangered Missing Person, it's someone who may be in distress from PTSD, mental trauma or some manner of diminished capacity (for lack of a better term). It's a way to utilize existing reporting streams and best use resources after its concluded that an alert should be given. The goal is to get people back, which is good. But since there's a limitation on reporting things to the press and such a thing as AMBER Alert fatigue. So you don't want to saturate the public with alerts and making criteria for a threshold is needed to filter some cases out.

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TimeTravellerSmith t1_j20z6l1 wrote

> So you don't want to saturate the public with alerts and making criteria for a threshold is needed to filter some cases out

Seems counterintuitive then to have multiple different alerts for essentially the same problem: getting people back. Would be way easier and more intuitive to have one "missing person" (and maybe an additional "missing child") alert with a description of what's going on instead of special alerts for every specific scenario that people have to remember.

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