Missing children: How racial disparities impact the search for the missing | States of America
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- USA TODAY Investigative Reporter Gina Barton and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel explore how the media and police handle cases that involve missing children of color. Gina examines two cases - the story of 7-year-old Alexis Patterson who went missing on May 3, 2002, in Milwaukee, and the widely publicized case of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart who went missing a month later in Salt Lake City. Alexis was Black and Elizabeth was white. Through an emotional interview with Alexis’ mother, we learn why she feels her daughter’s investigation was handled differently because of her race and socioeconomic level. We also interview the current chief of the Milwaukee Police Department who acknowledges that, “trust is a continuous process” with communities of color. Gina Barton has followed the story of Alexis Patterson for 20 years and on States of America she reveals what her research suggests are some of the flaws in the way that cases of missing children of color are handled by both the police and media.
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After attendance is taken, any child who isn't present, their parents should be called just to be sure. I can't believe this momma's been suffering all this time. Praying for her return and for her family 💜💜💜
Yhh, especially when it's a pupil that has almost never missed school across most of their high school
Most schools do… an automatic call is made after noon
@@MotherDaughterGaming5157That’s at the end of the day & it’s only a recording. When people are missing & there’s foul play, the victim is killed within 2-3 hours. You gotta wait 24 hours just to file a missing person’s report. Unfortunately, 89% of victims are already murdered by then. Schools should immediately notify parents of their child’s absence within 30 minutes.
Her mother should have been notified immediately!!!
They do it when they are doing what they are supposed to and that is not some new law as people think. I'm going to be 58. When I was in kindergarten it was done and there had to be a list of who the child could be picked up by or not.
7 years old is too young to let your child walk by herself.
Ask the $tep-Daddy.
Right I don’t even think he walked her to school mom killed her & had him cover it up
@christianstrickland2085 exactly!! She barely even cried all these years and she get defensive when people ask questions. Alexis is gone and been gone since the day she was reported "missing". The mom know exactly what happened to her daughter because she did it.
@@christianstrickland2085that's what I think. I think he only said he took her, to protect Ayanna.
@@christianstrickland2085yall sound dumb and is still doing interviews today she would have yo be as stupid as you. To not just let it go
WHY DO THE POLICE ALWAYS THINK THEY RAN AWAY !!!!!!
Because most of the time something like that is what happened. Or the child did something and didn't tell their parents. It's terrible that isn't always what has happened.
Because most of the time it ends up as runaways
Working with at risk kids, it’s very common & have a prior history of running away. I worked with a 14 y/o who took a train & went to New Jersey to go see her dad.
They always assume the worst of black children, it’s sad
All these responses trash. Most cases they aren’t run aways and really is missing.
I hope she is found safe.
I still think of Lexis. I remember helping on the search for her and was very sad but praying we find her. The media has always been horrible and racist
Yes it’s crazy I STILL see stories about Natalie Holloway and Jonbenet…. What about all the other children missing ?
She’s seven and you don’t drop her off to school, who the hell does that in this modern scary times?
Didn’t they say the step dad walked her to school and handed her off to the crossing guard
The step dad supposedly dropped her off.
This is true. Unfortunately this is America.
When a race makes up a majority of the population obviously they are gonna get more treatment. That's literally how life has always been
So sad we have to discuss matters like this…..
@@pumpkinseeds8990
You sound like a fool
That AIN'T got shhht to do with searching 4 EVERY MISSING HUMAN. THEY SEARCH HARDER 4 Missing dogs, than they do black people.. That's FACTS!!!
STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR WHY YTE PEOPLE ARE TREATED BETTER!! HOW DISGUSTING!
It's very difficult to even report a missing person.Take care everyone
Meanwhile the step sister said the mom was very abusive to Ayanna.
I can't even imagine!!! Prayers for this family and ALEXIS PATTERSON'S safe return soon/or some closure for this Beautiful Mother!!! ❣️🙏💯
You cant let a little child her age so young like that walk to school by there self and walk home while you in the house just sitting there. Thats wild
They said the step dad walked her to school
The step dad did it, that walking her to school story was a alibi, smh
Ask the $tep-Daddy.
Yeah that handing her off to the crossing guard is sus
Girl please.
@@benlotus2703you can’t ask him anymore because he passed away of a drug overdose
It could be someone in the neighborhood that seen her walk home every day
Ask the $tep-Daddy.
@@benlotus2703he’s freaking dead stop saying that
The disparities are HUGE!! Just for the record I'm considered white. How come the pretty white girls get all the attention?!?
That Requires you to expand learning more of 🇺🇸 & not the ignorance of black lens bs excuses or trash idealogies.
Go on try making a difference,
learn the Truth the HardWay.
All them black folks organized BLM but can't do same effort in finding these kids? Think about it.
Blame the Representatives Democrats Responsible for its people.
Oh wait, they too busy blaming white folks for everything.
If 840,000 children go missing every year...HOW COME WE NEVER SEE ANYTHING ON THE MEDIA ABOUT IT HARDLY...MAYBE a VERY FEW CASES
@@lorriesantos340 so in 10 years, over 5 million kids gone missing? 5 million less in human population?
Society the ent care it’s sad
Come home Alexis. Dear Heavenly Father, please show her the way❤
AMEN
The mother is no better than the step dad. She allowed this drug addict around her child. Sad that this child had people like this in her life
Shut da front door!😮😮
How do you know so much ??
Pls everyone share this for awareness of this poor lil girls family I just shared this mom needs justice 😢❤🌎🥰
Why is the teacher crying , and the mother isn’t 😳
The mother is probably all cried out!
@@KiaBrown-ly6vv girl bye, my god brother passed away almost 25 years ago I used cry when I was little and I still cry IT NEVER STOPS ! Anytime I think or talk about him I get sad. Please use another excuse.
@@tiannajay9634 black women love to try and find someone to argue with just for stating and opinion. But as you wish 🫡 bye 👋🏼
@@KiaBrown-ly6vv😂😂😂
@@KiaBrown-ly6vvyou can dish it but can't take it. Girl bye was arguing??😂😂😂
all children should be treated the same always no matter what
Not in the Good Old Boy-governed USA
So many unanswered questions is she still alive? 😢 why did her stepfather hand her off to the crossing guard instead of dropping Alexis in the school that's so strange
Like MJ said, “They don’t really care about us.”
THE MOTHER AND THE STEPFATHER!!!!! ENOUGH SAID!!
Thank you for this video.
Y'all can be stupid if you want her Mother had everything to do with this
This is heartbreaking
This lady is absolutely right!! They don't care about black woman. So we gotta be our own you know what......
I hope this will be a happy ending
There’s a video surfacing around of a young lady saying she’s Alexis patterson
Why did the lady decline, if she wanted to solve the case?
I believe she knows she ain’t never gonna come home …crying with no tears just like she was doing when Alexis went missing 😢
People DON’T behave in public the way you think they should when they lose a loved one. This is real life NOT a movie or show!
Some people don’t cry or show grief in public.
Some do it in private.
Just because you don’t see some people’s grief in public doesn’t mean they’re aren’t going through it in private!!!!!😡
I say this as someone who’s mother recently died from cancer.
& she didn't walk to school alone ... The mom ex husband Who is white walked her to school that day ... The ex husband was the last person to see her alive . . The ex is Dead now so who knows what happen that morning . . . 💔💔
@@MaryjaneLovethat man was not white
Y'all need a check the cameras and see what direction did she go so y'all could go that direction and try to find her cuz I know this girl is out here somewhere 😔
There were no camera's back then.
Ask the $tep-Daddy.
@@benlotus2703 he died
Trafficking and sold to another family
Very sad I Always wish in My Heart that I could bring A missing child Home to Beautiful Mother's like Alexis Mother . My Heart ❤️ would Love to See the Joy in the Beautiful Mother's Faces to finally See their Babies Again ( Some may not Be babies any more when they finally see them again ) but I would Love to See the Joy in the Beautiful Mother's Faces to finally See them again .
To Alexis Mom I really hope that your child is still Alive and I hope and Pray in My Heart to God that You See Your child again continue to Pray to God don't stop Praying on it .
She's cute I definitely think she should have been given whole lot more attention
That school should've been lock down cuz if the father gave her to the crossing guard wtf happen to her after that
Who was the crossing guard that the step father handed her to? That could of been an easy verification to confirm he did hand her off. Also, what time did he drop off her brother to the school? No one at the brother school could verify that he was dropped off at this time to confirm he dropped his step daughter off? Alexis was also confirmed to be talking to a stranger women at the school on multiple occasions and that last has never been confirmed. A man was reported weeks before to the police of trying to kidnap a kid from the same school. The police dropped the ball on this one early on in the investigation. Im not sure why people continue to accuse the mom with no proof and with her full cooperation
You asked the exact same questions as me. This could have easily been solved. Unless these people never intended to…
Just terrible! And the abuse of privilege and power continues to take away from our beautiful brown melanated people 💔😠
I don't think Ayanna Patterson the Mother had nothing to do with Her Daughter being missing ❤ 🙏😇💯
Well tell that to the police dogs who found and identified death in her basement and on the back floor passenger side of the step dads car. And when they did the illumination test it glowed of proof from both spots but they cleaned too good and they couldn’t get a good sample. The step dad failed the polygraph test that isn’t admissible in court. But the cops know who responsible they just don’t have enough proof to convict.
@@Lee-zm7hw Are You serious I never heard About that About them finding evidence of death in the basement, why the media haven't said anything about that if that's True .
This is sad.
Stepdad
This was sad 😢😢😢😢
And I do believe that Lisa Miller is Alexis Patterson why She won't admit it, I don't know . No body has 8-body marks that Are Exactly the Same and that not being the Same Person, that just does not happen, So that has to Be Her ( Alexis Patterson ) .
Right
@@ryoungblood6308 ThAnk You
Ms Peterson didn’t see No 8 body marks . She has never physically been around her . That woman has pictures from when she was a baby , birth certificates, & doctors and family proof that’s why she continues to decline. Who would want to keep going through that, when they know for a fact who you are ?
@@ChevyDiora Well that's what She said I ain't going to argue with nobody I'm just going by what She said
Well the DNA test that they did on her doesn’t agree with you because it came back negative.
So sad 😢
Alexis is beautiful and her smile lit up the room and the school should have called the Mom when she did not arrive at school. Back then there were no ring cameras either. Angel Baby.
I honestly think the only way the truth will ever be known, is if the Mom decides to tell the truth finally.
Her step most likely killed her. His friend mentioned that he helped him “clean” their house that same morning, her step dad failed the lie detector test, and truth be told, if he would’ve walked her to school, she would’ve been there. No one is going to kidnap a kid in the middle of the street as they are walking to school.
I missed that part of the video. What’s weird to me is how this other woman in Ohio has all the same distinctive markings that Alexis had? If it’s not Alexis.
The stepdad walked her to school. I doubt it they had something to do with it.
The city of Milwaukee FAILED Alexis first and foremost, then her mother and the rest of the family. Had they not been putting all their attention and manpower on the mother and the stepfather, perhaps she would've been found. I dont know a 7 year old who is mature enough to decide to run away from home. It's so sad that race plays a role in the way missing people are covered in this country. Prayers for this mother and ao many other parents and families of missing people who were and still are being denied justice.
Beautiful child ❤.
Trash the young woman that won't let you do a DNA test on her. She could be the one to give this mother closure but chooses not to.
Is very sad it shouldn’t be any difference because of the nationality or the color of any child skin. All children are important and you cannot assume because the child is black Spanish, Mexican, Cuban Indian or whatever nationality they may be a race that they ran away from home we do have wonderful, caring, loving mothers, and fathers that do love their children and their children are happy at home.. we must not tolerate this any longer All lives Matter. Where is the people and a community should all get involved even the clergies should get involved no matter what religion you are.
I think the step father whose now dead of an overdose had something to do with it
Never a tear from her mom, even in all of her interviews not a single tear. I may be wrong, but, mom knows she is not coming back.
I hold back tears under pressure - when the pressure is too great. You cannot say ‘no tears’ mean something negative.
@@myviewpoint2750but cadaver dogs findings in your basement and car do. A LIT up Luminol test ran on those two spots do. Adding flunking a poly graph test do.
Smart case got a movie
❤Black & Missing
Our family truly miss us
Fore them it’s to much to truly bare
We just need your help
It will show you really care
Fore It’s so many of us missing
It seems some don’t really care
To them we’re not important
For others to see or be aware
Please 🙏🏾 open up your mind
To this mess that’s all around
It more people of color missing then you think
We all just want to be found.
May God be with all those that our still missing.
May they be found and brought home safely…..🙏🏾🥰🙏🏾
I just watched a 12 yr old local video about this. Mom looks guilty af. Im sorry for the bias and Im sure its true but there was something bunk with that lady.
Beautiful is used loosely 🙏🏾💕
Lord be with the mom. There should be movie. What is the update.
The mom knows more than she is telling and the stepfather was the major key to Alexis but he is dead.
Not folks in the comments section blaming the mom
It's something fishy about this story and I think that girl Lisa is Alexis
So has Ayana changed her mind about being convinced that “Lisa miller” is her daughter?
Nothing new.
Until POC wake up, really listen and wake up, nobody can help you. Look up Walnut sauce for beginners. We have begged you to listen, but you won't. We have literally begged you.
Good ole America
The lady in Ohio is not her daughter
Ask the $tep-Daddy.
Wheres her dad???
Ask the $tep-Daddy.
wow wow
Why would the lady in Ohio not want to give a DNA test?? First she said she would then she not speak to authorities...yet she have the same markings at Alexis
She did give her dna 🧬
I thank the father had something to do with it
ASHA DEGREE is still on the news now and then and she's black. Been missing since the early 80's. Probably taken.
Raycist!
Interesting....
I'll never understand why parents don't walk there children to school or drive her to school. I blame the mom. She was very lazy not to make sure her child got to school safely. 🤐
YA LAME
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@MakeyoutubeGreatagain1 I'm not surprised I always thought So ...
Check blue vehicle and she's gone.....
they weird !!!!!!
They found Alexis. Now time to do DNA.
Yaasin aburaas
She's dead.
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Mi remember this story the stepfather didn't walk her to school why wasnt he a suspect at first he was the last one with this child.she was fell in so many way.they why he overdose guilt was eating his sorry ass up.
God bless you 🙏 please see what you can do to find him and kids in cages He is a cannibal too for Church of Satan
wow
7yrs old ‼️‼️‼️wtf aren’t u walking your child‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
As usual, you're loud and wrong. 🙄 It was stated in this video that the stepfather walked 7-year-old Alexis to school the day she went missing.
@@latyshal.2286 as usual being negative under a sensitive video just no home training idc what u say clown 🤡 I said what I said ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️now loud that
@@latyshal.2286if you would have done your research the step dad said he took her to the crossing guard and the brother said no he didn’t. That girl went alone.
I Swear I seen this Girl in the Nortend of Sarasota Yesterday evening at about 7pm
Parents of all missing children are suspects at first. Every single time, no matter the race. The police will investigste them but that doesn't nean they don't have people looking.
The husband
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE REPORTING?!?
This wasnt about racial disparity and this police department PUT THEIR HEART AND SOUL into this case. The stepfather NEVER walked Alexis to school and he did that morning?? He DID NOT hand her off to the crossing guard, the crossing guard said she never saw them. He was a drug dealer and this mom pretends like it was a happy family. She "whooped" her that morning according to the little brother because Alexis didn't put her socks on right! There was no story of a little spat, that is bs. Just listen to the word choices when the mother talks. Even from the beginning it was all about her. Why is the teacher still crying but not the mother?? This video ENRAGES me. How irresponsible of you to publish this pack of lies!!
That’s so sad.will the truth ever come out
The mom did it
400k go missing every year like fart in the wind, that’s of all races. How about you get out there, let’s us know when you have them solved👍
We d sack gif missing know body knew the police never advertised her sad
What does color have to do with anything this video just threw me off !!
Elizabeth Smart went missing the FBI got involved and offered a 250k reward for her...
It took 3 days for them to get involved in this case. A week later they offered 10k for her
@@mzbatonrougebeauty5267 Ask the $tep-Daddy.
Because it's white amarica they make everything about race
Why is the whole world silent?! Ukrainian troops seek to undermine the nuclear power plant!!! This is a deadly accident.
This video is about Alexis.
@@CapricornSunSagRisingLibraMoon Ask the $tep-Daddy.
JuZZtice
Hahahahaaha