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in the US you get automated messages that blow up your phone when a child is involved in a crime near you.
I turn mine off.
The specifics vary a bit from one state to another but AMBER Alerts are normally reserved for abducted children, usually with some additional requirements like sufficient reason to think the child is in immediate danger of death or injury, and enough of a description of the child and/or the abductor to be able to identify them.
Child bank robbers in your area!
Interesting idea, does it work?
They say it does, but my hypothesis is that most Amber Alerts are custody disputes, and the "abductor" returns the child when their phone receives the Amber Alert.
The rules vary from one state to another, But usually there's a requirement for there to be evidence that the child is in imminent danger before they can issue an amber alert.
I work in 911 dispatch, we have plenty of custody dispute situations where someone takes off with the kid where we don't issue an amber alert, that's saved for times where the person who took them is deep in a mental health crisis, or has made some kind of threats, etc.
Often it is custody or some other kind of domestic situation related, but that applies for most child abductions in general
Barely a day goes by that I don't get at least one call for some kind of child custody dispute, but I can probably count the amber alerts we've issued in my 6 years here (during my shift anyway) one one hand with fingers to spare.
I'm in a different country entirely, so I imagine we have different standards.
Still, what you said makes sense. There've been times when Amber Alerts have been called off in minutes of being pushed, so I'm not sure what happens there.
I'm not aware of everything that goes down in these situations. All I know is that I've never been in a situation to report any information to police every single time I've gotten an Amber Alert, and I want my device to respect my settings...but it doesn't, unless I "hack" it through adb