{"id":1536,"date":"2015-01-05T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T19:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2015-01-05T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T19:13:40","slug":"black-and-missing-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"Black and Missing Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackandmissinginc.com\/cdad\/\">Black and Missing Foundation<\/a> a couple of years ago.  It was established in 2008 by sisters Natalie and Derrica Wilson to address the under-reporting and overall lack of attention given to missing persons cases involving minorities.  I just came across a piece titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/93780\/64-000-missing-women-in-america-all-have-one-important-thing-in-common\">64,000 Missing Women in America All Have One Important Thing in Common<\/a> by Zak Cheney-Rice.<\/p>\n<p>From the article:  &#8220;The numbers: Despite representing 12.85% of the population, black Americans accounted for nearly 226,000 \u2014 or 34% \u2014 of all missing persons reported in 2012. According to the FBI&#8217;s National Crime Information Center, the comparison with other racial groups is unfavorable: Whites and Hispanics are a combined 80.1% of the population, but account for 60% of missing persons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted before about the horrible ambiguity of missing persons cases.  In some ways it&#8217;s worse than cold cases involving a murder.  I&#8217;m glad this organization was started and is still in operation.<\/p>\n<p>The picture below is from the NYPD&#8217;s photo unit archives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LostChildren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LostChildren.jpg\" alt=\"Lost Children NYPD Photo Archives\" width=\"393\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LostChildren.jpg 393w, https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LostChildren-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted about the Black and Missing Foundation a couple of years ago. It was established in 2008 by sisters Natalie and Derrica Wilson to address the under-reporting and overall lack of attention given to missing persons cases involving minorities. I just came across a piece titled, 64,000 Missing Women in America All Have One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6s-oM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}