e problem of juvenile runaways in our society I think that it is necessary to overhaul the current system set up to handle the problem. From work experience I have observed that current system is falling short of solving the rising problem. Protocols at the police departments, such as interviewing the child at the station prior to calling the parents, or social services, in order to better understand the situation at hand in order to adequately serve these children. Most of the time in our society we try to preserve the family structure at all costs. It is important to these children that we look to them first for what can be done for them. This added step would actually reduce the current caseload of the police officer working missing persons cases. Most children that are returned back to their home after running, will run again, giving the officer’s another case on their desks. If the officers were to try to find an adequate solution for the problem for the first time, they would not have do deal with the problem for the consecutive runs. Not to mention that we would have healthier and more productive juveniles in our society....
