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Nov 21, 2020 1 min, 37 secs

Less than 24 hours later, the bureau issued a statewide Amber Alert citing "new information and growing concern" about his well-being.

An Amber Alert was not issued for Quawan, because Baldwin police said his disappearance did not meet the criteria.

The Louisiana State Police, which activates Amber Alerts in the state, said it wasn't contacted about Quawan's disappearance and the agency wasn't part of the initial investigation.

The Louisiana State Police has not issued any Amber Alerts this year.

"Their frustration with law enforcement in this case is the inevitable outcome of the way we have oversold Amber Alert effectiveness," said Timothy Griffin, a professor of criminology at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Griffin said he has looked at more than 2,000 media reports of Amber Alert cases in the past 15 years.

"The fundamental problem from an Amber Alert policy perspective is that we have these ridiculous expectations of the system," he said.

The problem isn't the Amber Alert, he said, but how people think about it.

Griffin said he does not believe the Amber Alert system needs to be abolished.

But Trichell said none of the bodies of water near the sugar cane field where the teen was found were deeper than 2 feet.

So his father called the Baldwin Police Department, Haley said.

The agency has issued nine Amber Alerts in 2020.

A spokesman for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Josh DeVine, said Wednesday that the agency was working to determine specifics of the circumstances surrounding Jordan's disappearance "and have nothing further to add at this time."

Jordan was found by a rescue team from Kentucky, the Christian County Rescue Team, a day after the Amber Alert was issued

James Alan Fox, a criminologist with Northeastern University in Boston, said there are situations in which Amber Alerts are launched inappropriately and that if one was issued every time a parent wanted one to be, they could become less effective

Fox said deciding whether to activate an Amber Alert isn't easy

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