During the Masters Tournament this weekend, there was an Amber alert posted from a nearby city. What was fascinating was that they described the clothing the child was wearing, the type and color of the vehicle he was placed in, what was in the back of the pickup truck, the size and weight of the suspect, and on and on. But nowhere did they mention the race of the child or suspect they wanted us to watch for. Asian? Hispanic? Black? White?
I don’t know how the police do their job with such absurdly incomplete information. It reminds me of a newspaper story a few years ago about a nearby crime. The story mentioned witnesses put together a sketch of the suspect. The article asked all people to be alert for the suspect. But the paper failed to include the sketch of the suspect for whom we were supposed to be searching.
