AudibleNod OP t1_j20u6mg wrote on December 28, 2022 at 9:05 PM

Reply to comment by TimeTravellerSmith in Colorado will launch its new Missing Indigenous Person Alert program on Friday by AudibleNod

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.

TimeTravellerSmith t1_j20z6l1 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 9:38 PM

> 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.