(1) How Unsolved Missing Person Cases Are Solved (Pt. 1)

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92. Kansas legislators propose bill to start addressing high rates of missing, murdered Indigenous...

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Kansas legislators propose bill to start addressing high rates of missing, murdered Indigenous people


TOPEKA — While the world faces a global health crisis, advocates say, Indigenous people are facing an epidemic of their own with American Indians missing or murdered at disproportionately high rates.

Two legislators are acting to change that reality in Kansas.

As of Jan. 7, 2021, there are more than 696 missing American Indian or Alaskan Native people, including three in Kansas, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. A 2020 report using data from the Sovereign Bodies Institute, a nonprofit, Indigenous-led research organization, said 2,306 American Indian women and girls in the U.S have gone missing within the past 40 years, with 58% connected to homicide.

The U.S. Department of Justice reports American Indian women are murdered at rates more than 10 times the national average.

For this reason, Rep. Ponka-We Victors, a Wichita Democrat and one of two American Indian women in the Legislature, is taking another crack at legislation that would require training for law enforcement specific to missing and murdered Indigenous people.

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https://www2.ljworld.com/news/state-government/2021/jan/21/kansas-legislators-propose-bill-to-start-addressing-high-rates-of-missing-murdered-indigenous-people/
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