Pass It On
“He ran off with a hooker.”
“Your son just needed time away. Give him a few days and he’ll be back.”
“We’ve seen this before, he is probably cheating and out with another woman.”
“He’s probably partying. You know how college boys are.”
These are all real explanations that law enforcement have given the parents, friends, siblings, and girlfriends of missing young men. In each instance, detectives didn’t immediately begin a missing persons investigation. In each instance, the assumptions made by police were wrong and the missing young men were discovered dead.
It’s possible that the delayed response time from police caused key evidence to be overlooked or missed. We won’t ever know if a faster police reponse time would’ve changed the ultimate tragic outcome. We do know that the victims and their loved ones deserve better.
If you know someone studying to go into law enforcement or you know someonoe currently on a police force, send them this link. We need to get investigating officers to change the way they think about missing men and to change the way they treat the loved ones.
Officers, I’ll pose the same question to you that Chris Jenkins’ mom asked me, “What if it was your son?”
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