Re: Broadcast bulletins to alert Mainers to child abductions

[Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>]

<<On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:51:36 -0700 (PDT), Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com> said:

> This may have already brought up on the list but...  I
> was talking with some friends earlier today and the
> major question was, "Are there more abductions?

The answer (at least for the most recent years for which crime
statistics are available) is a resounding ``no''.  Child abductions
have been relatively constant for a long time.  The current media
frenzy has to do with the lack of interest on the part of the commercial
media in reporting substantive news.  Last summer, it was shark
attacks.

-GAWollman