This article show how desperate they are that they have to resort to Orwellian disinfo.

What is really going on is in the second paragraph: "Given that the hysteria is now too loud to ignore because of the publicity provided by actress Taraji P. Henson and rapper LL Cool J, the Metropolitan Police Department has been locked in a public relations battle..."

They have not debunked anything.

The fact that the new chief is friends with Alefantis discredits anything they say, as if commonsense and the sheer number of missing children isn't enough.

Really? So kids seen outside, you should call police? No kids at your home that does not reside there? Yep, sounds like a standard warning issued for runaways! NOT!

Do they expect us to ignore one of their own statistics that runaways often get trafficked?

Runaway and homeless youth are vulnerable to trafficking. A study in Chicago found that 56 percent of prostituted women were initially runaway youth and similar numbers have been identified for male populations. Runaway and homeless youth lack a strong supportive network and runaway to unfamiliar environments are particularly at risk of trafficking. Runaway youth are often approached by traffickers at transportation hubs, shelters or other public spaces.

https://humantraffickinghotline.org/what-human-trafficking/human-trafficking/victims

"In D.C., missing children dropped from 2,433 in 2015 to 2,242 in 2016." So over 2000 kids are missing from DC each and every year?