51 black women in Chicago are missing

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oldiebutgoody

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Alligatorob said:
Thousands of people are killed and murdered all over the world, but only the rare few seem to catch our attention.
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51 black women in Chicago are missing:


Pfleger, Community Activists Call Attention to Dozens of Missing Black Women in Chicago – NBC Chicago


“Nobody is looking for the 51 Black women who are missing,” he said in the post.

In an interview Monday, Pfleger called on local law enforcement to step up their efforts to solve the cases.

“Where’s the outrage? Where’s the commitment? Where?” he asked. “Where is the press conference from law enforcement and city officials to say ‘we’re gonna find the roots of this?’”

Roosevelt University Professor John W. Fountain echoed those sentiments.
 

oldiebutgoody said:
51 black women in Chicago are missing
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Each one is every bit as important as Gabby, not one iota less. Its a shame these cases don't seem to attract attention...

Police and law enforcement can be very selective in how they peruse murderers... My sister-in-law had an uncle who was a convicted murderer, he escaped from prison (Oregon) and not one single inquire made to the family. He showed up and told folks he had been released, ended up living with a nephew for a while. Then he got drunk pulled a gun and got himself shot, fortunately no one else was hurt. Only then did the police tell the family that he had escaped from prison. I know these folks, they would not have knowingly hidden him. Everyone knew he was out, even I did. Just a simple phone call and he'd have been caught... Intense manhunts seem to be limited to those of media interest, my experience anyway...
 
@OneEyedDiva
I agree with you completely that the attention given to the tragedies of blacks and other minorities is often minimal at best. All of us are as important as Gabby, and yet our society does not reflect this, never has, and things do not seem to be changing in any meaningful way. If anything things are getting worse.

@Alligatorob
This is such a terrible thing that could have easily been prevented with a simple phone call. This is very sloppy work on that part of the police.
 

Pecos said:
@OneEyedDiva
I agree with you completely that the attention given to the tragedies of blacks and other minorities is often minimal at best. All of us are as important as Gabby, and yet our society does not reflect this, never has, and things do not seem to be changing in any meaningful way. If anything things are getting worse.

@Alligatorob
This is such a terrible thing that could have easily been prevented with a simple phone call. This is very sloppy work on that part of the police.
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I agree with you, @Pecos @OneEyedDiva @Alligatorob
 
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oldiebutgoody said:
51 black women in Chicago are missing:


Pfleger, Community Activists Call Attention to Dozens of Missing Black Women in Chicago – NBC Chicago


“Nobody is looking for the 51 Black women who are missing,” he said in the post.

In an interview Monday, Pfleger called on local law enforcement to step up their efforts to solve the cases.

“Where’s the outrage? Where’s the commitment? Where?” he asked. “Where is the press conference from law enforcement and city officials to say ‘we’re gonna find the roots of this?’”

Roosevelt University Professor John W. Fountain echoed those sentiments.
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True!!!!! But it's not just the media and law enforcement, it really says a lot about everybody collectively.

"Gabby Petito is one of the thousands of women who disappear each year, as nearly three women are murdered every day in America by their romantic partners, but unlike almost all of those women she has become front page news and, in her disappearance and possible death, a sort of human Rorschach test: a meme, a hashtag, a social media moment and movement.

Gabby Petito’s hashtag was searched 268 million times on TikTok. In the same area that Gabby Petito disappeared, 710 indigenous people— mostly girls—disappeared between the years of 2011 and 2020 but their stories didn’t lead news cycles, internet sleuths didn’t clog Instagram and Twitter trying to solve the mystery of their disappearances. Personally, I find it more than a little infuriating that those 710 people didn’t get the same attention as this white, model-thin 22-year-old who’d been documenting her travels through Utah’s national parks in a white van with her boyfriend on Instagram."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-gabby-petitos-case-says-about-copsand-us

The media and law enforcement latch on to certain cases only. The victim has to have a certain appearance deemed priority one. No different than the blonde high schooler that went missing in Aruba several years ago. It was pointed out that several hundred people in her home state of Alabama were also missing. The media and law enforcement couldn't care less.
 
fmdog44 said:
Thousands of people very young and old disappear every year
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Yes, and their stories vary a lot. It seems most here agree that all disappearances are equally important, at least until something of the truth is know. Some are easily resolved, some can never be. Some are the result of evil doings and quite tragic, others are just temporarily misplaced people.

What can or should be done to make things better?

I don't believe we have much ability to influence what the press covers, but we do have some influence on law enforcement. Would more funding help? Easy to identify and complain about the problem, harder to figure out how to fix it.
 
While African-Americans represent about one-third of Chicago’s population, black people of all ages make up around two-thirds of the city’s open missing persons cases—an imbalance that’s consistent with national trends. The majority of those cases, 68 percent, are both boys and girls ages 11 to 21. And while 11- to 21-year-old black girls account for a quarter of all open cases, white girls, by contrast, account for just 4 percent. Missing black women outnumber white women four to one.


Black youth could be missing at higher rates because they are more vulnerable to sex trafficking than any other demographic. A 2013 study by the Crimes Against Children Research Center found that a disproportionate number of child sex-trafficking victims are African-American. Young women and girls are at particularly high risk for sex trafficking, according to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center.

https://chicagoreader.com/blogs/bla...majority-of-missing-persons-cases-in-chicago/
 
As far as media/news coverage this has hooks, blonde, interstate travel, aiding and abetting parents and 'enough' information that one can truely speculate online, talks shows etc. Those that are never seen again after a trip to a bar or 7 11 don't have what the media likes because sadly they are more routine.

Also with Chicago and their homicide rate and/or shootings. Rarely do I see stories or psa/request for locating susptects. As noted can't tell press what to do or even police to a point but pressure/reminders that those women and others are still missing. The more information the police or others produce the greater chance news outlets and social media picking up on them because they more to work with.
 
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No one "treats" equally ........ it is unreasonable to even think they would.

Example,if a family's loved one is missing ...... I sure hope they are found safe & sound. But I'm going to sleep soundly tonight.

If my loved one is missing ...... I'll be up all night , looking, watching the TV/listening to the radio for news. Combing the internet, might even buy a police scanner, .... probably won't sleep at all .... as the family sleeps soundly.
 
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Well, at least some attention is finally being drawn to this problem. I would just add that many males go missing as well.
 
Until this morning, I was wondering who Gabby Petito even was. I thought maybe she was one of the younger movie stars or rock singers that I had never heard of. I finally read about her (probable) murder, and it was a sad story, obviously tragic to her family. But I agree, why all the fuss and publicity about this case? What makes it any more special and interesting to the general public than the rest of the daily murders that take place in this country?

Maybe the media are desperately trying to find an attention-grabbing subject that for once has nothing to do with Covid?
 
Lotsa missing folk don't make the news, or even peak the interest of local authorities

Live up in the hills for a bit, ya see and hear things

Dig a hole
a renegade ain't showin' up no more....ever

It happens

a lot

folks on the run aren't reported, and have no real folks/friends nearby

they trudge onto some other renegade's place....they get offed
 
I've read that this young lady had quite a following on Instagram, and was widely known to some segment of the population. So naturally her story will get more media attention, and in turn we will hear more about law enforcement efforts to solve it. Also the basic story involved multiple states, so federal authorities can be involved.

The media also extensively covered the story of Nicki Minaj's tale of a friend's issue with the vaccine. Was that racist?
 
CNN was featuring a couple of families. The woman on this AM who's sons body was found in a river was heartbreaking. Another last evening with a missing son. No way will every person be on national news but every person does deserve local investigation and the families deserve respect and compassion.

There are probably some people who chose to disappear due to crazy families so they just left. Any adult has the right to. But there are so many tragic cases that will never get solved. Not white, not pretty, whatever, rarely make the headlines.
 
Alligatorob said:
I understand your point, and at a personal level it makes a lot of sense.

However I do expect our law enforcement people to treat all cases more equally. I don't think that is unreasonable.
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But we cannot forget that law enforcement is made up of people. No matter what ones profession, it does not change their personal view. IMO. As such [again opinion] if they feel a limited "closeness" to a missing person they may not [for example] look as hard.

Also, it can't be overlooked that she was 22 [an adult] not 'required' to get permission/check-in. So not until things turned suspicious did the law look closer at the situation. And that is reasonable .... I do not want our law enforcement folks chasing every person that just walks off ..... as many do.
 

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