Disappearing while black is not an issue confined to Chicago. It is a nationwide problem that garners limited attention. The FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database listed 424,066 missing children under 18 in 2018, the most recent year for which data is available. About 37 percent of those children are black, even though black children only make up about 14% of all children in the United States. The news media vastly underreports missing minorities.
