How can the AMBER Alert System become more effective?
What you have to do in order to have a successful AMBER Alert, I believe, is you have to give local law enforcement the ability to authorize their own AMBER Alerts within their own communities, and give them a means of doing the kind of an information distribution that will be most effective. Children can be kidnapped at a mile a minute, and an AMBER Alert should be activated within the first couple of hours after the child has been kidnapped, or even sooner. You want to create a small radius and you want to make sure the information gets out over the radio so that people driving their cars can assist, so that all law enforcement agencies are aware of it, so that all media outlets are aware of it, and so that things like service stations, convenience stores, fast food outlets, and transportation depots are all aware that that child has been kidnapped. You also want that child's poster or that child's face to be somehow available at that location. You do that, and you're going to create an AMBER Alert system that's going to be much, much more successful than the one that currently exists. You want to create an AMBER Alert System that's based on intelligence as apart from one that's based on bureaucracy.
