Chicago - 'Emergency summit' on missing, endangered youth

Saying he is alarmed by the rate of attempted child abductions in the Chicago area -- as well as by the perceptions that the cases are handled less vigorously when they involve black and Latino youth -- U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., tomorrow will convene an “Emergency Summit on Missing and Endangered Children and Teens.”

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At an emotionally-charged hearing on Chicago’s South Side Saturday, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush grilled top law enforcement officials about whether they respond forcefully enough when African-American and Hispanic children are reported missing or potentially abducted.

“I want to find out if there is a double standard and if there is, we want to erase it right here, right now,”
Rush told a panel of officials from the Chicago police, FBI and other agencies at the three-hour hearing.

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