About between the dates of march 19th-24th, a dozen black and latino girls were reported missing by the nation’s capital. The wave of the disappearances in D.C. stirred  sense of anger that the police department of the capital has not been doing enough to find these missing girls or to report a lot missing because of how bad the numbers were. On the date of march 22nd, a meeting held by the city officials at a charter school in southeast D.C. to discuss the topic and try to resolve it, and to also question police. Parents at this meeting confessed that they are scared to let their children go anywhere alone anymore, because they are not being protected by the police, instead, being kidnapped and disappearing. Studies show that black children who go missing receive less media than white children who go missing do. Cases involving white children going missing typically draw more attention than cases of black children, or just children of color in general. This is mainly based off of a lot of racist views people have on people of color, which is not fair to children who go missing all around the world everyday. A Lot of black children who go missing are forgot about and never found usually, because police stops looking for them because there’s “no hope” in finding them. Social media can help close the gap between a lot of children missing, for example a lot of celebrities post about the D.C. girls going missing caught some people’s attention. In washington so far, there have been 537 missing children reports, as for the black girls going missing recently, only 14 girls got reported missing. Shaniah Boyd, a 14 year old girl black girl seen last march, 15 year old Dashann Wallace, who went missing march 8th, and 17 year old Demetria Carthens, who was reported missing in february.