JEFF OR LAURA: I COULD NOT UPLOAD THE PHOTOS....IF ANYONE ELSE CAN UPLOAD THE PHOTOS---PLEASE FEEL FREE TO HELP ME OUT HERE! THANK YOU!

Always Appreciative,
"ANGELnWard14"

 

We can harness Internet for good and here's hoping that REALNEO readers will post their alerts here and link to Facebook and link to Twitter and will use whatever means to find our missing family members:

Turns out Cuyahoga County "piggybacks" their database off of the City of Cleveland's website -today CLE lists 87 missing persons and Cuyahoga County lists 192 -so which is it - and why--when I call to inquire about the welfare of a missing person - am I treated with suspicion for even caring??  I have been staring at Alyssa's face for a month now - posted throughout my neighborhood.   Today, I took the time to find out the status.  I have tried to see if she was listed as missing on FB (not to my knowledge) and I have asked kids about her.

 

Here is the case file for Alyssa Johnson in the CLE Regional database - she is still listed but shadowed - the case is closed - verified by a CPD officer who closes the case when he sees the missing person in person.  I called the Cuyahoga County number first - 216-623-5118, which, it turns out was a total waste of time.  I was put in voice mail.  So then I revisited Dianna Hill's REALNEO post about missing persons and was directed to a second site - to check -  Regional Fusion Center & Cleveland Police 

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Northeast Ohio Missing Persons Database
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216-664-4477    l   Email: Helpfindthemissing [at] city [dot] cleveland [dot] oh [dot] us 

http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/CityofCleveland/Home/Government/CityAgencies/PublicSafety/Division%20of%20Police/MissingPerson

 At least CLE site - seems to provide a live person to answer phone calls and has the database coded for Amber Alerts - the woman who answered at the Regional Fusion Center looked up Alyssa Johnson's case number and was able to give me the status - closed.

The question I have today would be: Why are we maintaining a separate and inaccurate database?? see below:

http://missingpersonscuyahoga.org/

 

 

Cleveland.com has deleted my two comments so far to this post that posits that we should talk to our CDCs. I am sick of talking to the CDCs, sick of meetings, sick of nothing being done. And, dammit - my neighborhood has nothing to do with the street in the kidnappings. If anything Tremont West does...but I don't blame them either.

Time to stop talking about the old days and actually be a better neighbor: Margaret Bernstein www.cleveland.com As so many people have said this week, it's time for everyone to step out of their homes and get to know their neighbors. Columnist Margaret Bernstein offers resources and advice.

Renate Jakupca: You have to understand Laura that the Syndicate employs IT people to 'clean up their reputation on the internet'. Tag and keyword 'Alerts' on search engines signal them when there is a transgression anywhere on the internet . They then have several methods of removing them ..... including paying a website host to delete the comments or postings. The old saying that 'whatever you post on the internet is there forever' is no longer true.

Laura McShane: Here's excerpt from story in PD: The aunt knew an attorney who knew a second attorney who had referred her to Baeppler. Could he help? Baeppler quoted the aunt his rates: $150 an hour for database searching, $100 an hour plus expenses for field work. She said she would have to check her niece's parents and call him back. Baeppler, 40, who's a sergeant with the Cleveland police department, comes from a police family. His father, Gregory Michael Baeppler, is a former Cleveland police commander and now the safety director in Parma. The son is a Cleveland police sergeant with 16 years on the job. He moonlights as an investigator for Integrity Investigations, which he founded in 2004. 

Laura McShane: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/post_156.html

Cleveland investigator solves case, reunites daughter with family blog.cleveland.com Cleveland-based investigator Paul Baeppler knew ...

Laura McShane: PD reporters have blood on their hands and complicity with corruption in NEO that looks the other way as human trafficking goes on and telling me to work with my CDC - sick. First off, the story doesn't take place in my neighborhood and Cleveland.com wants to distance the damn thing from Tremont - service area for the street...and second of all, CDCs suck dollars from projects that could help my neighborhood - could keep kids engaged afterschool and keep them from wandering around like lost sheep.

Ohio Communities United will hold a press conference in front of the Jane Edna Hunter Building on Tuesday May 14, 2013. The organization's concerns are that Michelle Knight was an abused child and that her child was removed from her care prior to her abduction at the hands of Ariel Castro. The worker for Michelle was able to convince the Police, her family, and her child that she had "run-away" and abandoned her child. We have been waiting patiently to hear from the county as to whether they have the intent to at minimum reunite this young woman with her child. We understand that these are extinuating circumstances but we also believe that an unprecendented move on behalf of the county is warranted.



We believe that to begin to help heal this young woman and her child that the Department of Children and Family Services should bring this mother and child together to dispell the belief that she abandoned him.



We will be holding a Press Conference at 10:00 am in front of the Jane Edna Hunter Building. Please find a copy of the letter sent to the following individuals:



Ed Fitzgerald

Rick Werner

Pat Rideout

Dan Brady

Yvonne Conwell

Pernell Jones

Dave Greenspan

Dale Miller



For follow up question please feel free to call Mariah Crenshaw, Lady Chair 216-240-5669 Ohio Communities United

Ultimately in Keeping it simple....

You have HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF REINVENTED WHEELS...some are squares, some are diamonds, some are round and most are flat!!!!

There are so many countless agencies working to use the people as quotas and driving federal tax dollars to pay administrative staff which would make normal folks heads spin. The bottom line: LIKE THE MILITARY: these agencies need to have a chain of command; communication requirements; information sharing; and dissemination protocols. THIS IS WHY THE ENEMY ALWAYS HAS OUR INFORMATION: THE WORLD REFUSES TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY and NO ONE TRUSTS THE NEXT TEAM PLAYERS...and more than all above: The people in charge are starching their collars for good photo ops....while the little people are languishing in devastating circumstances....

REDUCE THE CHAOS in this town: RUN IT IN A MORE MILITARY FORMAT: FOR NOW; it's still running in circles like the Romper room playroom spinning mirror!

Always Appreciative,
"ANGELnWard14"

CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Police Department is turning to the public for help in finding a missing 21-year-old woman.

Relatives filed a police report on May 15 for Ashley Leszyeski.

Ashley's mother told police she last saw her daughter on May 6.

A one-year-old child of Ashley's initially listed as missing in the report was located later in the care of a relative.

The Cleveland Division of Police is asking that anyone with information on the whereabouts of Ashley Leszyeski contact the 4th District Detective Bureau at 216.623.5418 or 216.623.5400.  

http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/300038/45/Cleveland-Police-ask-for-help-locating-missing-mother

http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/300136/3/Errors-found-in-missing-persons-database

Here is a faded photo of Raina Bennett whose image still appears on telephone pole on Clark and West 48th St.  Raina disappeared and was quickly found in company of not-so great folks who thought she was much older than her twelve years.  I spoke with reporter Rachel Dissell at the Plain Dealer.  I hope that there is a follow-up and that Plain Dealer doesn't just move on to the problem we have in ALL of NEO for keeping young people engaged in healthy activities.  The lure of sex (and drugs) is a rite of passage. How do we make kids understand their sexuality and find healthy outlets for their new selves.  We are fortunate in Brooklyn Centre neighborhood, because Valerie Salstrom has worked to create healthy option with Junior Jitterbugs.  We need so much more.

http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/cleveland-police-ask-for-help-to-find-12-year-old-raina-bennett-last-seen-on-west-side

(note see - image we cultivate in young women at wkyc site)
 

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Update 2/25/2014 Raina Bennett is missing again - what is going on here???!!  Why is a thirteen year old girl being groomed for a life in the sex trade industry ???  

http://www.19actionnews.com/story/24807607/cleveland-police-looking-for-missing-13-year-old-girl

 

It is very disturbing that this young girl has been missing since March 30th w/ no resolution - she lived and worked on near west side of Cleveland at Wendy's on W. 25th

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/flier-distribution-planned-for-missing-cleveland-woman

 

On the FB page - it indicates that she was last seen at a motel in Middleburg Heights with a man ( have there been no updates? Who provided this information to family since she lived in Cleveland?)

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/434584106697769

Here is some useful information posted to the FB feed:

The Ohio Missing Persons website posts cases that meet the following criteria:

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Missing: Raina Bennett