[EAS] BLU Alert Comments.

[Ed Czarnecki]

No, they were a directly relating this to broadcast EAS.  An average of 50 annual EAS Amber's X 17 years = 850.  Pretty close to the National Center's figures.

And as their director noted during the briefing, that's only the cases they can definitively trace to an EAS activation.  They're feeling is that the number of child recoveries due to EAS is actually even higher.

Edward Czarnecki, Ph.D.
Senior Director - Strategic and Government Affairs
Monroe Electronics Inc. / Digital Alert Systems

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From: Sean Donelan
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Statistics are a wonderful thing.

NCMEC includes all news coverage in its definition of broadcast Amber
Alert, not limited to the EAS generated alert.

Of the approximately 250 Amber Alerts issued a year, about 50 Amber Alerts
directly resulted the recovery of the child (or children).  Or about 20%.

Of course it varies each year.  In 2016, there were 179 Amber Alerts
issued, and 43 cases the child (or children) was recovered as a direct
result of the Amber Alert, or approximately 24%. The rate is similar in
previous years (20% to 25%).

Again, more than zero.

On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, Ed Czarnecki wrote:

> Regarding Amber Alert, I was at a industry meeting on Monday where
> NCMEC gave a briefing of their program and of the overall Amber process.
> NCMEC provided some statistics that gave me a very different picture of
> the role of EAS and the recovery of at-risk children.  Some 881 cases
> have been resolved with child recovery with information attributed to a
> broadcast Amber Alert.  Approximately 40 additional cases were resolved
> with information attributed to a WEA Amber Alert.

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