Manns Medium

Failure of the media to place as much emphasis on missing minorities as it does on missing Caucasians first came to my attention when I saw a segment of a HSN production of Dr. Drew Show.   I had not given it much though before and honestly I have no one to blame for this but myself.   I was comfortable with seeing the overwhelming coverage of missing people in the media and some parts of me was okay in believing that this was not happening as much in the minority community.   I now beg for the forgiveness of all for not helping to apply as much pressure as one man could in forcing the media and all law enforcement to give missing minorities just as much coverage and attention as they do for the others. In an article written by Tambay for Indiewire.com titled S. Epatha Merkerson To Host New TV One Series, "Find Our Missing" (Searching For Missing Black Americans) it is revealed that   “Nearly one-third of the missing in this country are black Americans, while w...

When the Amber Alert program was first released and connected all law enforcement agencies, many thought that it was a great idea but with the mistaken deportation of a US teen, I believe that it should be expanded to include runaways. According to an article by Juan Carlos Llorca and Linda Stewart Ball of Associated Press titled US teen deported to Colombia could soon return , it was reported that “Jakadrien Lorece Turner, a 15-year-old Dallas girl, who ran away from home more than a year ago, was recently found in Bogota, Colombia, by the Dallas Police Department with help from Colombian and U.S. officials.”   Now the grandmother is “questioning why U.S. officials didn't do more to verify her identify.”   Common wisdom is if you give a fake name to law enforcement then you have determined your own fate and the fault falls directly at your feet. I surmise that if the Amber Alert program is extended to runaways and that information is sent to all law enforcement agencies inc...