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Originally Posted by GGG
Why isn’t an Amber alert a real emergency?
What I would like to know is if they track Canada wide the number of tips that come in as a result of the alert system and if those tips helped to lead to the rescue of the children in the alert.
If let’s say there is a 10% success rate of a tip received as a result of the alert then we should all suck it up.
So hopefully they are collecting data and after about a year of the current system evaluate the locations successful tips are coming from and if the program is effective at generating useful information. Then you tweak based on the data.
Right now this debate it two groups of people without the key information to make the decision. So for now the prudent thing is to let the law enforcement agencies operate this how they believe is best than evaluate once data is available.
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Well for a select few people it definitely is. The problem is for the rest of the population of Alberta there is absolutely nothing they can do about it, and treating all alerts the same will eventually get people to stop caring about them entirely if the amber alerts continue to be so common. A regular text alert for these would inform everyone already awake and out of their homes, so they can keep an eye out and report anything suspicious. For everyone asleep they see the notification when they wake up, instead of being pissed off that they were woken up and shut their phone off completely as a result
Unless the expectation really is that we need to wake everyone up so they can all immediately start searching the area, the current system needs to change