Missing American Alert!

According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons (NamUS) database, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 600,000 persons of all ages go missing every year, and approximately 4,400 unidentified bodies are recovered every year. The ten states with the most missing persons as of 2022 are California (3,010) Texas (2,044) Florida (1,612) Alaska (1,201) Arizona (1,040).  Arizona ranks  top 5 throughout our entire nation.  Arizona is in desperate need to bring an end to this nightmare.

Missing black Americans are over-represented (disproportionately large percentage) in the total number of missing people in the U.S. Despite making up only 13% of the total U.S. population, more than 30% of all missing persons were black in 2018, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.  Only about one-fifth of these cases are covered by the news, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.  Black families searching for missing relatives say that their missing loved ones are more likely to be labeled as runaways, and that they are somehow not worth the focus of the police or the media.