evidence: Police sent out a "critically missing" alert to media outlets but not an Amber Alert, a Milwaukee police spokesperson said. [...] Racial disparities do not seem to factor into the state’s Amber Alerts. Authorities issue less than three a year. Of the 41 alerts sent out from 2003 to 2020, 18 were for Black children, USA Today reported. Residents are still concerned, as the number of alerts issued pales in comparison to the hundreds of children who remained missing in Milwaukee alone, the state’s Blackest city, in 2022. The family’s suspicion comes with a level of context. The national crisis of missing Black children is well documented, and advocates have long said missing Black children are less likely to receive law enforcement resources and even Amber Alerts to find them. That was among the complaints in Milwaukee in 2020 when residents put together a civilian search party to find two Black teenage girls, who had been missing for three days, USA Today reported. They disappeared amid the George Floyd police violence protests, and tensions between Black residents and local police were running high in cities and neighborhoods across the country. Like Prince’s, their cases also did not meet criteria for Amber Alerts, the newspaper reported then.