Changing every station to 24 hour alerts can't hurt either, but we don't do it.
If empirical evidence says something doesn't work then I accept it and leave it at that. Several peer reviewed studies say exactly that.
Go ahead and try to shame me or whatever, but the facts are on my side.
Not yet, but I have 2 young nephews that I treat like my own.
I'd want them to call in the army, search and rescue, everything if they were missing. That doesn't suddenly make an ineffective (at best) policy more likely to work.
The two I read about were kidnappings where the child was in no danger (with close relative) and a dangerous confrontation was initiated by police or civilians.
What it boils down to is that situations where A) the child is with a dangerous person and is still alive at the time of the alert, do not exist for all intents and purposes.
Also, constantly using alerts in places that are an obscene distance from the kidnapping reduces any effectiveness that they would have by a substantial amount.
Maybe you should know the facts before you criticize others. They don't work and are just a way to collect political brownie points instead of addressing the real issues.
You proved that you edited it while I was responding. Neither one of us did anything worth discussing. You could and should have dropped it and not started this childish argument.
You already admitted to having it wrong and you could have dropped it after I corrected you. This happens dozens of times every day and nobody cares. Quit being a child and drop it.