Should the public vote someday as to who goes on the list?

If the voters were anything like me, the most likely additions would have the highest death tolls. Some voters won't be in a position to think beyond their own city, which could complicate matters for their field office.

I'd rather the FBI publicity panel that does it continues to do it since they do a good job and it's not a popularity contest but who they feel the public would recognize.

Also "high death tolls" shouldn't be the only reason- if someone killed four people but are in a country where they can't be extradited then they're useless on the list. And it's also kind of insensitive to the family of a victim- sorry since this guy only killed your one beloved family member- but this guy killed two people we're going with this guy.

And also, other crimes besides murder, especially child molesters should be recognized as well, and they've done an excellent job over the years but my biggest complaint is they haven't added a child molester since Walter Lee Williams FIVE YEARS ago.

I wouldn’t think voting for the next top ten fugitive would be wise, although I do have some criticism about how it’s done currently, such as in not being diverse when it comes to crimes (adding child molestors and more dangerous attempted murder fugitives). If we were to vote for a fugitive it would be very difficult for the bureau if they have a fugitive on their radar and only need the list to put pressure on a country or if investigators feel like they’re close to an individual, but need assistance from the public, it pretty much alienates those particular cases, which is the whole idea of the Top Ten List in recent times.

Say for example, Big Bird was wanted for murder. (Sorry to ruin childhoods), and was believed or investigators have a strong lead he’s hiding out in Los Angeles (sorry to anyone living there), the FBI if they feel the need would add Big Bird to the list, in order for the public to flush him out.

But in all seriousness the FBI has reasons we may not know about it but they do for adding someone to the list. Although I'm sure they did feel public pressure when it came to adding Yaser Said. (So many of us were angry he wasn't on the list in the years before he was finally added).

This may be off topic and I apologize about that, but I feel instead what may be a better idea is for the individual field offices to have their own regional/local most wanted fugitive(s). As an example, the FBI's Los Angeles Bureau office could publish a list of their 10 most wanted fugitives wanted out of the counties that their field office covers. I've seen archived articles about this in the past but I don't recall a field office doing something to this effect in recent years.