2000 American children every day? Really?
20 girls in DC in two weeks I can believe.
According to the FBI, in 2017 there were 464,324 NCIC entries for missing children. Similarly, in 2016, the total number of missing children entries into NCIC was 465,676.
This number represents reports of missing children. That means if a child runs away multiple times in a year, each instance would be entered into NCIC separately and counted in the yearly total. Likewise, if an entry is withdrawn and amended or updated, that would also be reflected in the total.
http://www.missingkids.com/KeyFacts
missing kids can be runaways, parent abduction, relative abduction, stranger abduction, or just plain vanished. At any given moment, today, tomorrow, next week, next month, over 80,000 kids are missing. Most of those that are killed, are murdered in the first three hours.