Missing People in the United States

Below is a list of important facts about missing people in the United States from the FBI:

The National Crime Information Center (NCIC) recorded 88,089 active missing persons cases in 2017.

46.6% of those missing persons cases are of juveniles under the age of 21.

52% of all missing persons are male.

African Americans make up 13% of the United States population, but they make up an overwhelming 33% of all missing persons.

Reports of missing persons have gone down by 24% since 2004.

There are currently 85 people in the FBI’s Most Wanted Kidnapping & Missing Persons list.

The FBI has four major initiatives to help protect missing and abducted children – those four are CARD (Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team – a group of experts that quickly respond to crimes against children during the critical first few hours after abduction), Endangered Child Alert Program (a proactive program that attempts to identify unknown adults who produce child pornography or are otherwise involved in the sexual abuse of children), Innocence Lost National Initiative (a task force dedicated to addressing the issue of domestic sex trafficking of children, and rescuing victims), and the Partnership with NCMEC (the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shares valuable information about sexual exploitation’s of children through their hotline, which the FBI investigates).