My impression was that AMBER alerts were essentially pretty much as useful as the TSA. Good for giving the public an impression of utility, but not actually effective for their purported purpose.
The reasoning is that in almost any case where a child is in significant danger of violence, there is essentially zero chance of law enforcement being able to act quickly enough to prevent that violence. So issuing an alert might help you recover a child more quickly who would have been recovered anyway, and does nothing to prevent children from actually coming to harm.
The reasoning is that in almost any case where a child is in significant danger of violence, there is essentially zero chance of law enforcement being able to act quickly enough to prevent that violence. So issuing an alert might help you recover a child more quickly who would have been recovered anyway, and does nothing to prevent children from actually coming to harm.