year does not alarm you? >> well, sure, it alarms me. if you've got people who have children that are missing, but it doesn't mean all of those children are still missing. oftentimes a kid will be on his way home from school, wind up going to a neighbor's house and not call home, and you wind up finding the child within a relatively short period of time. >> some of the concern that we're hearing from activists and from these lawmakers and the congressional black caucus is that there seems that there are an abnormal number of minority children who are still missing. and when we talked with the center for missing and exploited children they back that up, saying about 57% are people of color who are missing. why do you think that is? >> i don't know why that is, but it is a disproportionate number of minority children that wind up being reported as missing. again, there's a smaller percentage that are never found, but it is something that's