Ghostwheel
Pyrrhonist
Respectfully snipped for space.
The disadvantage (and advantage, actually) with NCMEC is that it is not on freeway signs and not on TV or radio. For those of us who get 200+ valid emails everyday, we just scroll on by the non-priority emails, thinking we will get back to them and rarely do. When I have a deadline, I'm not taking time out to look at missing children posters right then. (I happen to run through them in the dead of night, but some people want sleep, the lazy bums....). When I see an alert on a freeway sign, I am very likely to check it as soon as I get home, because it is only one thing to look up. My friends will pay attention if their TV show has a "breaking news" banner across the bottom of it. An Amber Alert is pretty in your face. NCMEC alerts are not, and some days, I never get around to the emails.
So, to me NCMEC is not a good enough alert system for a child who had no reason to run away, had a phone and/or other communication device that went dead, was looking forward to *anything* the day he/she disappeared, all of the gear they were visiting with is missing and cannot be found in the near vicinity or with friends or family. I'd like to see something that gets thrown out there for three days, similar to an Amber Alert, a week after the missing child cannot be found. JMO.
