TRUMP LAUNCHES MAJOR INITIATIVE TO FIGHT CRIMES AGAINST AMERICAN INDIANS

    While the US Corporate Media was busy making complete fools of themselves with the impeachment hoax, the Trump Administration was busy improving lives and helping people. Attorney-General William Barr concluded a visit to the Flathead Indian Reservation with the major announcement of a new initiative designed to combat homicides and human trafficking which have been rampant on Indian Reservations during the last few decades. 

   The new program is called the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Initiative. It's based upon recommendations from tribal officials themselves. The Justice Department gave a summary of the MMIP, which has three essential components:

 1. Establish MMIP coordinators: The Department of Justice is investing an initial $1.5 million to hire 11 MMIP coordinators in 11 states to serve with all U.S. Attorney’s offices in those states, and others who request assistance.  The states are Alaska, Arizona, Montana, Oklahoma, Michigan, Utah, Nevada, Minnesota, Oregon, New Mexico, and Washington state.  MMIP coordinators will work closely with federal, tribal, state and local agencies to develop common protocols and procedure for responding to reports of missing or murdered indigenous people.  The first MMIP coordinator is already on board in Montana. 

  2. Specialized FBI Rapid Deployment Teams: The strategy will bring needed tools and resources to law enforcement.  Upon request by a tribal, state, or local law enforcement agency the FBI will provide expert assistance based upon the circumstances of a missing indigenous persons case.  FBI resources and personnel which may be activated to assist with cases include: Child Abduction Rapid Deployment (CARD) teams, Cellular Analysis Support Teams, Evidence Response Teams, Cyber Agents for timely analysis of digital evidence/social media, Victim Services Division Response Teams, and others.  MMIP coordinators will assist in developing protocols.

   3. Comprehensive Data Analysis: The department will perform in-depth analysis of federally supported databases and analyze data collection practices to identify opportunities to improve missing persons data and share the results of this analysis with our partners in this effort.

   All of these provisions---especially the 2nd---should have been done a long time ago. It actually follows up on a 2017 Executive Order that removed Deep-State Era regulations that prohibited Tribal Police from access to other law-enforcement resources such as databases. The only thing that the Obama Administration ever did for the Indians was to lecture them on unisex bathrooms and lobby for renaming Columbus Day. 

   Barr noted that “American Indian and Alaska Native people suffer from unacceptable and disproportionately high levels of violence, which can have lasting impacts on families and communities.  Native American women face particularly high rates of violence, with at least half suffering sexual or intimate-partner violence in their lifetime.  Too many of these families have experienced the loss of loved ones who went missing or were murdered."  There is a reason for this. 

   Prior to 2017, the Tribal Police had so few resources and practically no ability to network with agencies outside the Reservation. Say, for example, kidnappers working for Prince Andrew wanted a young Indian girl (or boy). Once they got their prey and got off the Reservation, the Tribal Police could do little more than file a complaint with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The advantage such a situation would afford to killers and kidnappers is obvious; but the Democrats and Swamp RINOs ignored the problem for years. 

  President Trump has done more for the Indians than anybody since Calvin Coolidge granted them full citizenship in 1924. But don't expect the Media to say a peep about it; it contradicts the narrative that only Liberals care about minorities.