Missing Syria girls' families criticize police over letter

[LeftishBrit]

Relatives of three London schoolgirls believed to be in Syria have criticised police for not passing on "vital" information before they disappeared.

They say they might have been able to intervene if they had known one of the girls' friends was in Syria and that police had spoken to the trio about it.

Shamima Begum and Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, were each given a letter for their parents, but hid it...

Relatives have criticised detectives for not going to them directly with what they believe was vital information...


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31766328

[samsingh]

1. sure, it's the police fault - sarcasm off

[LeftishBrit]

2. No one, even the families, is saying that it's all the police's fault..

just that they could been more pro-active in helping to prevent this nightmare.

I do realize that there's always the dilemma: if police do everything possible to prevent crime and disaster, this often comes at the cost of privacy and civil liberties. But I think the line should be drawn in a different place for children and adults. If the police were worried enough to contact the girls, they should also have contacted their families. The girls are minors.

[non sociopath skin]

3. The blame game is going to help no-one here.

The whole of our Society needs to ask itself why this sort of thing is happening and how it can best be addressed.

The Skin

[samsingh]

4. i don't think its the whole of society that is making upper middle class

kids join isis despite seeing how brutal and murderous they are.

ownership and responsibility are important to resolve crap like this.