> 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.

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?