Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Boebert Tweet on Missing Children Misrepresents FBI Data, 95% Ran Away
… While that number is technically correct — there were 365,348 reports of missing children entered into the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database last year — nearly 95% of those were categorized as runaways, or children who leave home without permission and stay away for at least one night, the agency said in its 2020 report.
The misrepresentation of the data reflects a belief popularized by the QAnon conspiracy theory…
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