#namus — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/lt/46421/ Milžiniškas švaistymas: ES praranda tiek šilumos, kad užtektų šildyti visus namus, štai kas ją gelbės #Business #gelbės #Lietuva #Lietuvių #Lithuania #Lithuanian #LT #milžiniškas #namus #praranda #šildyti #šilumos #štai #švaistymas #tiek #užtektų #Verslas #visus

@anna_lillith

5/5
...ethnicity in the census, so the denominator might be slightly higher, which would slightly increase the ratio for the #Canadian segment of the figures.

Further investigation seems warranted, if my calculations are correct.
This cannot be a sociological deviation, as possibly with the figures for #blacks in 1/n.

BTW, #NamUS seems to have noticed, too. The only special report for ethnicities is for #AmerIndians and #AlaskanNatives:
https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh336/files/media/document/namus-stats-ai-an-october-2022.pdf.

@anna_lillith
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...and the #US and that therefore the age distribution of #NativeAmericans is not too different. So 50.52% of 5.4m = 2.7m #NativeAmerican women. So 5.712 (2016) missing females means 212 missing for every 100, 000 people.

According to #NamUS "...Nationwide, there are roughly 6.5 missing persons for every 100,000 people."
(https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/missing-persons-by-state)

This would mean that the disappearance of...

The USA government is defunding and shutting down #NamUs. This federal database holds case information for missing and unidentified persons. We will lose the ability to name and find hundreds of thousands of people. If you can, archive their data. Reach out to
@[email protected] for coordination.

@aeveltstra My spouse is one of those unpaid web sleuths. They will enter your missing loved one's information into #Namus for you, if you can't. For instance, if you prefer to avoid the police, or if you are bad with computers, or if you're too upset.

Namus will run DNA tests, dental records, and similar tests to help match missing people to unidentified ones. Their a.i. may kick back a match. But most of the matches are found by volunteers. Their work is crucial.

Have you heard of #Namus? No?

Well: you should have.

https://www.namus.gov/ sports a USA national database of unidentified deceased people. More and more unpaid web sleuths as well as state police and local police forces are entering their cases.

What good does that do?

It helps professional and amateur investigators match cases of missing people to the unidentified ones. Or rule them out as potential matches.

A lot of web sleuths performing unpaid labor solving these cases. Namus helps!

#NamUs is making their #website more #userfriendly. In the process, the detail level of available case information has been limited, which is a shame. But it's easier now to enter the information of unidentified people, and to match that against missing people's information. #UserFriendliness of tools like websites is a very important factor in identifying people. It makes me happy that NamUs takes this seriously, and I hope they can be an example to other government agencies.