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Recent Statistics:
The FBI estimates that 85- 90% of missing persons are juveniles. Thus, in approximately 750,000 cases (or 2,100 per day) the disappearance of a child was serious enough that a parent called the police, the police took a report and entered it into NCIC.
For the fifteenth time in the eighteen years since the passage of the missing Children's Act in 1982, the number of missing persons reported to the police increased. The 2000 reports were up 1 % over 1999. The total increase since 1982 is 468 % (154,341 entries in 1982 vs. 876,213 entries in 1997).
Juvenile"-685,617 cases, up .2% over 1999 (police enter most missing child cases in "Juvenile," including some nonfamily abductions where there is no evidence of foul play)
"Involuntary"- 31,539 cases (adults and juveniles), a decrease of 1.1 % from 1999 (defined as "missing under circumstances indicating tha the disappearance was not voluntary; i.e., abduction or kidnapping")
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Crime Information Center (NCIC), Missing Person File.
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