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Alaska: Barr comes to learn about violence in the village
« on: June 03, 2019, 08:30:48 pm »
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Barr comes to learn about violence in the village



BUT WERE TABOO TOPICS DISCUSSED — OR AVOIDED?

U.S. Attorney General William Barr came to Alaska from Washington, D.C. to learn about violence against Natives.

He participated in a roundtable discussion with Sen. Dan Sullivan at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage. He travelled to Bethel and Galena. He listened. He observed Native dancers in a community center in Napaskiak.

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Right now, in an Alaska Native village that must go unnamed, troopers are looking for an extremely dangerous man. The man is Native and he is on the loose. The Troopers asked the village council to help them locate the man. The council refused to help. They are protecting him and hiding him from Troopers. The man is a known vicious sexual offender and Troopers have now stepped up the manhunt, first devoting three, and now five officers searching for this man, in a matter that could be and should be already handled. Across village Alaska, Native leaders often do not cooperate with law enforcement, and just as often are known to protect criminals.

Read more at: http://mustreadalaska.com/barr-comes-to-learn-about-violence/

May or may not be similar to problems Canada has been discussing today, see thread:

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,363918.new.html#new

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Inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women issues final report with sweeping calls for change
The report, released today in Ottawa, calls on government and police to address endemic violence
John Paul Tasker · CBC News · Posted: Jun 03, 2019 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: a minute ago

After more than three years, dozens of community meetings and testimony from well over 2,000 Canadians, the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls inquiry delivered its final report to the federal government at a ceremony in Gatineau, Que., today.

The report includes many recommendations to government, the police and the larger Canadian public to help address endemic levels of violence directed at Indigenous women and girls and 2SLGBTQQIA (two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual) people.

A copy of the final, 1,200-page report — and its 231 "calls for justice" — is available here.

Read more at: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mmiwg-inquiry-deliver-final-report-justice-reforms-1.5158223

As I've said, sometimes, one can read that for some violent crimes, Alaska has a high rate. This may be in part what all of this is about.



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Re: Alaska: Barr comes to learn about violence in the village
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2019, 02:12:15 pm »
Attorney General William Barr's visit to Alaska shines light on the "neediest people"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-visits-alaska-shines-light-on-public-safety-emergency/

A boat is required to reach the remote fishing village of Napaskiak in southwest Alaska. But this is one of the places Attorney General William Barr came to see.

As he made his way along the boardwalks that wind through the village, he heard how the isolation has made the residents vulnerable, reports CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford.

In a meeting at the local school, the village's tribal chief pleaded for help and protection. "We need serious public safety here," said Stephen Maxie Jr. "We may be poor, we may be the poorest people and the neediest people, but we should matter."

Alaska has the highest rates of domestic violence and sexual assault in the United States – three times the national average. But an investigation by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica found one in three communities in Alaska had no local enforcement officers. And there, sex crime rates are even higher. Help can be hours or a day away.

In addition to a lack of transportation further isolating these remote communities, the problems they face include alcohol, which is banned in most of communities but still available in towns and smuggled in. It is a factor in almost all cases involving assault, violence and suicide.

This village has new tribal police officers, but with no training. Their jail is used primarily as a drunk tank; 97% of the crimes committed by Alaska natives involve alcohol....

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Re: Alaska: Barr comes to learn about violence in the village
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2019, 02:13:26 pm »
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Napaskiak,+AK/@61.9245475,-163.2044632,5.31z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x572053aeffca573d:0x24a0f9658664c962!8m2!3d60.7068387!4d-161.7623804
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