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Amber Alerts work. So why are people complaining about them?
The system could probably be refined and tweaked, say experts, but with a child’s life at stake, police aren’t apologizing for waking people up
The Amber Alert system on phones is already annoying people, and that’s dangerous
The problem isn’t that people are seriously inconvenienced when their phone buzzes for an Amber Alert, because they’re not. It’s that the system will desensitize them entirely, harming emergency preparedness in general.