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In a study conducted by Liebler, focused on the disparity in police coverage for missing persons of color, she discussed that, “Both print and broadcast journalists depend on police to alert them to a missing persons case. For journalists, police involvement in a case signaled that the case was legitimate, or as one news director stated, that it had been ‘vetted by a police agency.’”