The press didn't bother to check similar stats in other states....Florida's won awards for their work and Jeb's One Florida education plan was so successful in helping the kids learn, the DNC's desperate.
Fact is, the problem with state childcare is that states can't do the job of parents, never will...and the Dems. have worked so successfully at reinventing and undermining families (including "no-fault" divorce laws Reno wrote pre-Clinton years in Fla.) that we have a national problem.
At any rate, using the kids and the tragedy of these cases to smear Jeb is low...even for AP and the Democrats.
Some real facts on missing children in America, and problems with state agencies an be found here:
The National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children (NISMART): estimates that one out of every seven children will run away between the ages of 10 and 18. Nationally, 450,000 run away from home each year and 13,000 run away from juvenile facilities. Fortunately, one-half of all runaways return home within two days.
www.missingkids.com, NCMEC, a private, 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice. It is the national resource center and clearinghouse on missing and exploited child cases.
DOJ-California, Missing Children
www.800usakids.org
2001: Florida's Lowest Crime Rate in 29 Years, check out the higher rates of family squabbles and drug busts...for kids and adults.
Finally, from Florida's police:
Alberto Millian, PBA Director of Political Affairs and a former prosecutor, said many local officers feel betrayed by Reno's actions.
"She's not liked by law enforcement," he said. "As a local prosecutor she presided over an explosion of crime down here. Drug trafficking increased, she was soft on public corruption and generally made it harder for law enforcement to do their jobs," Millian said.
"Janet Reno's legacy has been one of politicizing the law enforcement process to serve either her political constituencies, her friends or alliances or her agenda. That's not a good law enforcement official," he added.
From: Men in Blue Seeing Red Over Reno. CNSNews.com, Dec. 12, 2001