Nearly 40 percent of those who disappear are minorities, according to the National Crime Information Center.
Stats reported on the Black And Missing Foundation‘s website note a total of 240,411 minorities reported missing in the U.S. from January 1 to December 31, 2013**.
In 2013, a total of 627,883 people were reported missing, of which 316,435 were female. According to the organization, most of the women who disappear are from the states of New York, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, and Florida.
The Black And Missing Foundation (BAMFI ) was organized in 2008 to help bring justice to the families whose voices go unheard.
Starting February 6, BAMFI will launch Our Untold Stories, a new series of programming that explores the missing persons cases of Teleka Patrick, Dashad Smith and Pamela Butler. The series airs at 7pm ET every Thursday this month on BAMFI’s You Tube channel.
**from Jan-Dec 2013 surveys of missing reports, via Black and Missing/FBI