And recent cases involving Miya Marcano, Jelani Day and Daniel Robinson have increased the scrutiny behind the lack of coverage and law enforcement assistance. Statistics involving missing Hispanic people are even more difficult to categorize and obtain because they are classified as “white” in the federal data.Īnjel Tech, which also aids in assisting students on- and off-campus, addresses the alarming rates around the country. According to the National Crime Information Center, more than 70,000 Black girls under the age of 18 were reported missing in 2020. Without media coverage and the police resources that usually follow, it often falls to families or organizations to pick up the baton and raise awareness until they are found. The nation’s recent fascination with every detail of the case of Gabrielle Petito, who went missing and was later found dead in Wyoming, prompted the Black and POC community to raise questions about the tens of thousands of women, men, boys, and girls - many of them Black, Latino or Indigenous - who are reported missing each year and go unnoticed.
