Anthony Urena’s mom seeks change in how NYPD handles missing persons

Anthony Urena’s mom seeks change in how NYPD handles missing persons
By Sheila Anne Feeney   [email protected] January 28, 2016
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Judith Lopez, 46, believes the NYPD’s initial refusal to acknowledge her son as a missing person after he disappeared last year is a civil rights issue: Why shouldn’t cops take the disappearance of a healthy adult, without cognitive or physical problems, as seriously as they might a missing child or elderly person?
Police, she complained, “repeatedly told me he was a healthy 23-year-old who didn’t want to come home,” rebuffing her first attempts to lodge a missing person’s report when her son, Anthony Urena, inexplicably vanished.

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