Alert needs more info for effectiveness
On Monday, March 9 a statewide Amber Alert was sent to cell phone
users to be on the look out for a grey Nissan Altima with the licenses plate 5UCF010.
Later in the day the alert was cancelled
because the missing child was found in Tijuana, Mexico.
The child was safe.
Not everyone was too pleased on being notified.
Some probably didn’t care about it enough for it to disturb them. Some just didn’t like the little information that was given.
I know I didn’t.
When you think of helping someone in a matter of life or death situation, you hope for a great or even good amount of information to be given to you.
When it’s just the info about the color of a car, license plate number
and model it just doesn’t seem like enough.
I understand privacy.
Not everyone wants to have their story out in public,but sometimes more information is needed, to give a clear lookout for the person or persons involved in the crime.
These details should include information about what the abductor is wearing, or something,unique about the individual just not the car he or she is driving.
That, to me, won’t go far for one particular reason – connected
phones and wifi some people don’t want to use their internet
access.
The alert might come through, but viewers won’t click through the link
.
All we can see is the car info in that initial alert.
So how are we supposed to help if we can’t access the extra info on the link
in the alert?
Even then there’s not always a continuance
to it, except the news provided in the alert.
So maybe to fix this loophole, more information should be added.
Regardless of those who don’t want to hear about it, not everyone will come to an agreement on the solution.
It’s worth trying to add more information, as it might just improve the results of these alerts.
Let it be clear that little info given does help, but it doesn’t always have a promising successful recovery.
That being said this might not be 100 percent bulletproof but it might increase the success rate even if it’s at a high-success rate already
, there is nothing wrong with wanting even better.






