What you have here is the same cycle of violence that happens when Men don't behave responsibly and take care of their business with respect to having and raising kids. What sort of chance does a kid have when Dad is in jail? He grows up just like him or even worse.
"We believe he is either hiding in the area of Los Angeles or may possibly have left the state,"
Good thing they narrowed that down. Maybe they could update this later by saying, "we think he may be here, but if he's not here, then clearly he's somewhere else."