How many NCMEC-escalated CyberTips resulted in arrests or prosecutions in 2023 and 2024?

1. What the records make clear: scale of CyberTips, not outcomes

NCMEC’s public reporting and partner disclosures foreground the scale and changing composition of CyberTipline submissions—36.2 million CyberTips in 2023 is repeatedly cited ^{[4] [1] [5]}, and reporting for 2024 is presented variously as 20.5 million or explained as a decline from 2023 after platform-level bundling and other reporting shifts ^{[3] [6] [7]}. These documents and industry statements focus on incident counts, files submitted, and new categories such as increases in AI‑generated material, not on a single, consolidated metric linking CyberTips to arrests or prosecutions ^{[6] [7]}.

2. NCMEC asks law enforcement for feedback but doesn’t publish a simple “arrest/prosecution” tally

NCMEC’s transparency and operational materials describe mechanisms to encourage law‑enforcement feedback on CyberTipline referrals and include forms and guidance that capture whether an investigation led to an arrest (for example, the “If ARREST” prompt in NCMEC documentation), but the available reports do not convert those case‑level fields into a public aggregated total of arrests or prosecutions resulting from CyberTips for 2023 or 2024 ^{[2] [8]}. The absence of a published aggregate appears to be a reporting choice or limitation in the public datasets rather than an indication that arrests did not occur.

3. Why a clear count is elusive: platform practices, bundling, and law‑enforcement fragmentation

Several practical factors in the reporting ecosystem help explain why the number is not readily extractable: platforms restructured how they report (including “bundling” duplicated viral content), the rollout of the REPORT Act changed reporting obligations in 2024, and the rise of end‑to‑end encryption affected what platforms sent to NCMEC—each of these altered the volume and nature of CyberTips and complicates simple year‑to‑year outcome tracking ^{[9] [7] [10]}. Moreover, CyberTips are routed to many local, state, federal, and international law‑enforcement agencies (including ICAC task forces), and prosecutions are handled by varied prosecutorial offices, making a single centralized tally difficult to assemble from the public documents ^{[11] [1]}.

4. What the reporting does offer that points toward impact, without a neat number

Although there is no consolidated arrest/prosecution total in the sources, NCMEC and some platforms state that CyberTips generate time‑sensitive and actionable reports—NCMEC reported an average of dozens of urgent reports daily in 2024, and platforms like Snap and Meta describe efforts to increase actionability so law enforcement will pursue leads and ideally secure arrests and convictions ^{[10] [4] [9]}. These statements indicate enforcement activity flows from CyberTips, but the sources stop short of publishing the aggregate conversion rate from CyberTip to arrest or prosecution ^{[4] [10]}.

5. Bottom line and where to look next for a definitive answer

Based on the provided reporting, it is not possible to state how many NCMEC‑escalated CyberTips resulted in arrests or prosecutions in 2023 or 2024 because the available NCMEC reports and related documents do not publish an aggregate count of arrests/prosecutions tied to CyberTip referrals ^{[2] [3] [1]}. To obtain a definitive figure, the next steps would be to request aggregated law‑enforcement feedback data from NCMEC or to compile data from the Department of Justice, state ICAC task forces, and local prosecutors’ offices—sources that the public documents indicate receive CyberTips but that are not summarized in the cited materials ^{[11] [2] [12]}.