The number of missing persons cases in the US is around 600,000 each year. 533,936 NCIC missing person files in 2024. (Statista) I’m sure undocumented people would be less likely to be reported missing as well. I would be completely unsurprised to learn there were ICE squads disappearing people with no official record of it.
This is basically a total number of all open missing persons cases, not number of cases per year. This represents all open cases within the past 34 years. If we assume an equal rate of missing persons cases per year that becomes about 18,000 people a year.
If you actually look at your data you’ll see a pretty sharp decrease in missing persons cases since the 90s.
We know ICE is committing illegal actions daily, so what’s the point in trying to misrepresent data and pin this on them anyway? Even if the argument is so many people go missing its easy for ICE to dissappear people, it falls apart quickly when you look at the actual numbers. They wouldn’t be able to dissappear many people before causing a significant increase in missing persons reports. 9,000 people would be a 50% increase. There are a lot more than that dissenting right now.
I’m not misinterpreting, maybe you read before I edited the phrasing to make it more clear, I understand this is the number of total open cases each year which is why it’s relatively consistent, cases open and close.
I wasn’t suggesting anything about the number of people they could potentially be taking, just that there are thousands of unsolved cases of missing people each year.
Just pointing out there are thousands of unsolved missing persons cases, murders get more publicity but if people disappear it doesn’t make as much news and is harder to prosecute even if there is a lot of suspicion of someone who might have abducted and killed the person missing.
That seems to be going right back around to the accusation ICE is disappearing people. I’m almost certain they have contributed to missings persons, but it would rapidly become apparent if they began disappearing larger amounts of people.
The number of missing persons cases in the US is around 600,000 each year. 533,936 NCIC missing person files in 2024. (Statista) I’m sure undocumented people would be less likely to be reported missing as well. I would be completely unsurprised to learn there were ICE squads disappearing people with no official record of it.
You are misrepresenting the data here.
This is basically a total number of all open missing persons cases, not number of cases per year. This represents all open cases within the past 34 years. If we assume an equal rate of missing persons cases per year that becomes about 18,000 people a year.
If you actually look at your data you’ll see a pretty sharp decrease in missing persons cases since the 90s.
We know ICE is committing illegal actions daily, so what’s the point in trying to misrepresent data and pin this on them anyway? Even if the argument is so many people go missing its easy for ICE to dissappear people, it falls apart quickly when you look at the actual numbers. They wouldn’t be able to dissappear many people before causing a significant increase in missing persons reports. 9,000 people would be a 50% increase. There are a lot more than that dissenting right now.
I’m not misinterpreting, maybe you read before I edited the phrasing to make it more clear, I understand this is the number of total open cases each year which is why it’s relatively consistent, cases open and close.
I wasn’t suggesting anything about the number of people they could potentially be taking, just that there are thousands of unsolved cases of missing people each year.
So why did you present this data then? What was your goal in including it here?
Just pointing out there are thousands of unsolved missing persons cases, murders get more publicity but if people disappear it doesn’t make as much news and is harder to prosecute even if there is a lot of suspicion of someone who might have abducted and killed the person missing.
That seems to be going right back around to the accusation ICE is disappearing people. I’m almost certain they have contributed to missings persons, but it would rapidly become apparent if they began disappearing larger amounts of people.