Agreed.  When typical, evasive police verbage meets trash DP reporting we get blocks of words that fail to tell a story.

Though it is hard to determine anything without the 5 w's that even junior high school journalism attends to, it sounds like the police want to bother the Dad and turned to the Amber alert system to convert people with goodwill toward children into west-coast style snitches.

This goes a step further than the PD's that issue the same Amber alert 5 times in 10 minutes, though both threaten the viability of this costly and potentially life-saving system.

Hard to believe we trust these people to roam the streets with guns when they can't even make proper use of a simple, high-visibility, text messaging system.

I feel dirty for having glanced around in search of that Toyota.  I'm officially done gifting my valuable time, attention, and screen space to these alerts.