Imagine sending your child to school like any other day but they never come home. Then you get the phone call. "Your child is missing." Those four words are a parent's worst nightmare.

When the Washington, D.C., Police Department tried to raise awareness about missing children and teenagers by posting their images on social media, the campaign backfired, sparking some national outrage and fears of an epidemic of missing children of color.

This discussion about the Missing Girls of Washington DC includes Commander Chanel Dickerson of DC Metropolitan Police Dept., Derrica Wilson founder of "Black & Missing", Rev. Moya Harris of Metropolitan AME Church and Sharece Crawford ANC Commissioner for Southeast Washington DC.

Recent publicity surrounding missing children in Washington, D.C. has launched a firestorm of conversation and controversy about the issue in the nation's capital and across the country.

The news pricked at the deepest fears of Washington, D.C.'s black community. Between March 19 and March 24, a dozen black and Latino children were declared missing by police in the nation's capital.