JustThink…

It could be your grandmother, mother, sister, cousin, friend, and/or girlfriend. The girl you knew from elementary school that was quiet in the back, or the girl with the loud voice  trying to make you notice her. It can be your teacher whom you learn from the most. The amount of girls missing in Washington D.C and other states where attention is now being focused on it, is absurd. Just think about if it were you that were missing. How would you feel? How would your loved ones feel? Contact with anyone is now not an option. Just think about the situations that can be exposed to you. Rape, Sex trafficking, or even a fatal death.

Here is the number of juveniles reported missing over the last five years, according to D.C. police’s website:

2017: 501 (as of March 22)
2016: 2,242
2015: 2,433
2014: 2,222
2013: 2,067
2012: 2,610

The reason for the rise in attention towards this problem, “is due to efforts by a new Commander Chanel Dickerson. She decided to make sure every case gets the same attention and is posted on social media” (DeMarco). Many of the missing girls happen to be of African and Latino decent, “The District of Columbia logged 501 cases of missing juveniles, many of them black or Latino, in the first three months of this year, according to the Metropolitan Police Department, the city’s police force. Twenty-two were unsolved as of March 22, police said (Fox News). In the cases of these missing children what is brought to the forefront of my mind is the danger that they can be in. To know that it is unsafe to walk around in the streets of your community is unfortunate. To not be able to live life freely, having to check over your shoulder every so often to see if there is any danger present. Just think, where and why? Who and how? For what? We have to ask these questions and find the answers. #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS

If Someone Doesn’t Care, Then Why Are We Here?

 

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