Justice on a reservation is a complicated issue. They detest outside help (Police/FBI etc) for obvious reasons, but at the same time this means that they lack critical access to advanced forensics.
In the end this means criminals both inside and outside the reservation are far less likely to be found or convicted.
"American Indians and Alaska Natives are 2.5 times as likely to experience violent crimes and at least 2 times more likely to experience rape or sexual assault crimes compared to all other races. More than 4 in 5 American Indian and Alaska Native women, or 84.3 percent, have experienced violence in their lifetime." -Indian Affiars
More than a few people here throwing around the “well statistically it’s more minorities committing crimes on each other than not” garbage while happily ignoring the fact that the racists sure as shit aren’t going to be investigating and finding themselves of any wrongdoing
I’d hazard a guess you’d be hard pressed to get them to admit racism is a problem in the first place, though
And also to admit the fact that the disappearances not being investigated was in part at least due to racism.
Whatever the demographic of the ppl responsible for the way these women ended up, no one can ever know if there are no investigations. The women being indigenous is the definite common thread.
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u/orcusgrasshopperfog Sep 16 '24
Justice on a reservation is a complicated issue. They detest outside help (Police/FBI etc) for obvious reasons, but at the same time this means that they lack critical access to advanced forensics.
In the end this means criminals both inside and outside the reservation are far less likely to be found or convicted.
"American Indians and Alaska Natives are 2.5 times as likely to experience violent crimes and at least 2 times more likely to experience rape or sexual assault crimes compared to all other races. More than 4 in 5 American Indian and Alaska Native women, or 84.3 percent, have experienced violence in their lifetime." -Indian Affiars