Re: Broadcast bulletins to alert Mainers to child abductions

[Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com>]

At 03:51 PM 8/21/02 -0700, Cooper Fox wrote:

>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?  or is
>it just that because of things like the Amber alerts
>we know about them quicker and the word is spread
>farther?"  What do you think?

It's not what I think, it's what I know.  This subject was bought up on "On 
The Media" several weeks ago, and someone from The Center for Missing 
Children said that the number of stranger abductions has remained constant 
at about 100 per year in the US.
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Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH