Why didn't I receive an Amber Alert?

Maybe you run over the missing kid because you were distracted by a government alert?

Since we haven't had one no one knows whether they are meaningful or not.

Whatever you say isn't going to help. Don't feed the troll.

I mean have you heard the noise iPhones make? It's like the phone is melting during a nuclear holocaust. The one time I heard it it scared the poop out of me. Turned out to be a flash flood warning 100 miles away. Shut the government alerts down before big brother forces you to recieve them.

Yes, I'll give you one. City of Fort Worth, last year, estranged husband at a family gathering took his eight year old child and left in his car. Amber alert went out and a citizen spotted the car and reported it to the police. They were able to spot the vehicle, negotiate with the father and recover the child. If you contact the Texas Department of Public Safety they will be willing to share many more with you. It is nothing more than passing the word among the neighborhood using technology, in this case a much larger neighborhood.

Turn them off if you don't want to be bothered.

As I said, you can turn them off. You should not have received on for something 100 miles away.

Settings > Notifications > AMBER Alerts = OFF

Emergency Alerts = OFF.

Keep in mind in any new phone you buy these alerts will default to ON so you will have to turn them off when you set up the phone.

You should hear the alert on my emergency weather radio.

It the government deciding for you what is best. We've become a nation of sheep. This inscursion on freedom uses children, next time they'll use mother or apple pie.

Government isn't deciding anything for you. You can opt to turn them off. Was in the business and used whatever notifications we could including Reverse 911, texts, Highway electronic boards, etc. All it is doing is getting the word out to get help or alert people to an emergency. They are using is in Arizona with the fires also. People may not have a TV or radio on but they usually have their phone with them.

You also have e911 on cell phones now and you also didn't get a choice in that.

since you have not cited anything, read this article:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/07/20/abducted/?page=full

"independent study of whether Amber Alerts work, a team led by University of Nevada criminologist Timothy Griffin looked at hundreds of abduction cases between 2003 and 2006 and found that Amber Alerts - for all their urgency and drama - actually accomplish little.

In most cases where they were issued, Griffin found, Amber Alerts played no role in the eventual return of abducted children. "

Just because someone says amber alerts helped in the case doesn't really make it so.. it may have just been a coincidence as the study is actually pointing out

The Amber Alert system is more effective as theater than as a way to protect children. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/07/20/abducted/?page=full

That study is quite dated and refers only to ones that were sent via TV and radio. The bigger an more immediate you can make the system the better it will work, again it is just spreading the word. It is also not only used for adbucted children. Turn it off if you don't want to participate.

spread the words... aliens aliens 🙂 and now what do you want to do?

Who knows?

For both of you: It gives you a choice, turn them off and you will both be happy.

Alien abductions. Mauve Alert.

People squeezing the Charmin. Pink Alert.

A Kardashian nearby. Vomit colored alert.

http://www.twincities.com/technology/ci_22642126/minnesota-cellphone-amber-alert -located-child-and-was

There is your example of it really working. It worked back in February in Minneapolis, just a couple months after it went live. Now, eat your shorts and enjoy. All you conspiracy nuts are funny. This system is going to save a lot of kids and also will alert people to severe weather like tornadoes. It is a one-way system so the government has no clue where you are or what you're doing, so it isn't big brother.

If you don't want the alerts, turn them off. If you're too self-centered to want to know when a child is abducted and you might be able to help, well, then you are just probably not the type of person that needs the alerts. If you have a kid, or have one some day and someone takes them, I think you'd hope everyone gets the alert in the hope that someone sees the car and calls the police.