Virginia's Missing Children (2017)
Missing Children Vanish from Virginia
The rates of missing children in Virginia are astounding. Since this is a lengthy post I will provide you with the stats first and let you decide if you’d like to continue reading as this post is lengthy.
2017 Missing Children (up to Nov. 9th, 2017
Virginia: 347
- Rate per 100,000 : 4.1
California: 178
- Rate per 100,000: 0.45
Alarming Number of Missing in Virginia for 2016
This is a follow up post to Virginia where we explored the available data on missing children in the state of Virginia for 2016.The data clearly shows that there was a disproportionate number of missing children per 100,000 in the state of Virginia when compared to the all other states including California and New York. Although the numbers are certainly alarming, the researcher who made the original analysis, and posted it to YouTube, cautioned that the results may be a result of poor reporting or incomplete data and that we should be cautious about reaching any definitive conclusions.Even though 2017 has yet to come to an end, curiosity got the better of me and I decided to dig into data supplied by the NCMEC in the state of Virginia for this year. Since no complete databases with statistics on missing children exist, I decided to gather information manually and build a data set plugging in individual profiles into an Excel spreadsheet. All the data comes from the NCMEC database of missing children for Virginia and California (accessed - October 10th to November 10th).Virginia Records NCMEC
- Records Found - 370
- Records Found – 603
The NCMEC’s public database is organized and sorted alphabetically with the profiles of missing boys and girls from different years all intermixed onto one page.If for example, you’d like to search for missing children in 2017 there’s no way to separate this year from the remaining profiles. As a result, the process of gathering all of the profiles (for a specific year) is a slow and painstaking process.
What I’m about to share with you is truly shocking
I collected the data over several weeks in October and early November 2017 and I can still hardly believe some of the numbers and patterns that emerged.
The numbers compiled here are from January 1st to November 9th, 2017.
Missing Children in Virginia 2017
If you want to find data/information on missing children in the state of Virginia you may find yourself at the Virginia State Police page in association with Virginia.gov.http://www.vsp.state.va.us/MissingChildren.shtmWhen you click on ‘missing’ you are redirected to a page dedicated to missing children in Virginia. A repository of missing children is compiled by the
Virginia Missing Children Information Clearinghouse
This organization works in conjunction with state law enforcement, the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).Unfortunately, the links to the Virginia Missing Children Information Clearinghouse are broken. Therefore, we must rely on the NCMEC’s website for any available data.
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Missing Children Vanish from Virginia
The rates of missing children in Virginia are astounding. Since this is a lengthy post I will provide you with the stats first and let you decide if you’d like to continue reading as this post is lengthy.
2017 Missing Children (up to Nov. 9th, 2017)
Virginia: 347
Rate per 100,000 : 4.13
California: 178
Rate per 100,000: 0.45
Alarming Number of Missing in Virginia for 2016
This is a follow up post to Virginia where we explored the available data on missing children in the state of Virginia for 2016.The data clearly shows that there was a disproportionate number of missing children per 100,000 in the state of Virginia when compared to the all other states including California and New York. Although the numbers are certainly alarming, the researcher who made the original analysis, and posted it to YouTube, cautioned that the results may be a result of poor reporting or incomplete data and that we should be cautious about reaching any definitive conclusions.Even though 2017 has yet to come to an end, curiosity got the better of me and I decided to dig into data supplied by the NCMEC in the state of Virginia for this year. Since no complete databases with statistics on missing children exist, I decided to gather information manually and build a data set plugging in individual profiles into an Excel spreadsheet. All the data comes from the NCMEC database of missing children for Virginia and California (accessed - October 10th to November 10th).Virginia Records NCMEC
- Records Found - 370
- Records Found – 603
The NCMEC’s public database is organized and sorted alphabetically with the profiles of missing boys and girls from different years all intermixed onto one page.If for example, you’d like to search for missing children in 2017 there’s no way to separate this year from the remaining profiles. As a result, the process of gathering all of the profiles (for a specific year) is a slow and painstaking process.
What I’m about to share with you is truly shocking
I collected the data over several weeks in October and early November 2017 and I can still hardly believe some of the numbers and patterns that emerged.
The numbers compiled here are from January 1st to November 9th, 2017.
Missing Children in Virginia 2017
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deviantart.netIf you want to find data/information on missing children in the state of Virginia you may find yourself at the Virginia State Police page in association with Virginia.gov.http://www.vsp.state.va.us/MissingChildren.shtmWhen you click on ‘missing’ you are redirected to a page dedicated to missing children in Virginia. A repository of missing children is compiled by the
Virginia Missing Children Information Clearinghouse
This organization works in conjunction with state law enforcement, the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).Unfortunately, the links to the Virginia Missing Children Information Clearinghouse are broken. Therefore, we must rely on the NCMEC’s website for any available data.
NCMEC
As I mentioned, the NCMEC website leaves a lot to be desired. There are plenty of pages on how to protect children, the various programs and partnerships of the NCMEC, etc., however information related to actual missing children is not as accessible as you might imagine.You can search for individual profiles However, there’s a certain lack of organization. This is certainly perplexing to some extent since it's well documented that the organization uses some of the most advanced real-time data analytic software available, namely the CIA seeded Palantir.Palantir software is used by the military, government agencies, financial institutions and even charities such as the Clinton Foundation. Essentially, Palantir is an infrastructure for data analysis that can incorporate existing software used by any given organization to help them make sense of their data and increase efficiency.Yet, the organization that receives tens of millions of dollars in private and federal funding, which also uses the most advanced data analytics available is somehow unable to provide basic numbers regarding missing children state-to-state.Granted, some of the difficulties of tracking the number of missing children in America is that there are certainly cases of; runaways, children that return home but not reported or even false reporting of a missing child.
Comparing Virginia and California
Let’s start with the total amount of reported missing children from both Virginia and California.
Population
- California: 40 million (approx.)
- Virginia: 8.4 million (approx.)
Total Missing Children (January 1st 2017 to November 9th, 2017)
- California Total Missing Children: 179
- Virginia Total Missing Children: 347
Rate per 100,000 people
2017 (to date)
- Virginia: 4.12
- California: 0.45
2016
- Virginia: 3.76
- California: 0.41
Already this doesn’t seem right.
Virginia has over 100 more missing children than California, a state with a population 5 times larger. Just by examining the total numbers we see similarities emerging with the 2016 data.As the 2017 data comes in, it appears that the shocking rates for Virginia discovered in 2016 are not an anomaly. It would appear that Virginia’s, indeed, at the epicenter of missing children in the United States.