Can someone please explain to me an obvious contradictory paradigm in modern law enforcement practice in the United States?
Without resorting to special pleading?
1. It is a canon of law enforcement theory that the chances of successful resolution to crimes involving missing persons diminish geometrically as we move 48 or more hours from the moment of reporting said crime.........
And yet.....
2. Nearly all law enforcement agencies refuse to accept missing person reports involving adults or teenagers for 24-48 hours after the missing person was last seen.
How in ANY rational universe are these two positions defended and pursued simultaneously?