evidence: The Wisconsin Justice Department’s refusal to issue an Amber Alert has sparked debate with some politicians and activists, like state Sen. LaTonya Johnson, contending that the state’s stringent alert criteria hinder the search for missing endangered children, especially Black children who are often underreported by the media and met with apparent police indifference. [...] Since its state’s implementation of the alarm over two decades ago, Wisconsin has only issued 57 Amber Alerts. The system has a 50/50 rate of recovering children 17 years and under. Prince’s family initially believed his race had something to do with them not issuing the alert, according to the senator. But Johnson explained that the issue is the system. Some activists are pushing for a new system to be created called the "Lily Alert" for missing kids like the system’s namesake, Lily Peters and Prince, who do not meet the Amber Alert criteria.