Spotty data and media bias delay justice for missing and murdered Indigenous people
- Written by Wendelin Hume, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of North Dakota
Native Americans are more than twice as likely to be victims of violent crime than the U.S. population as a whole.Michael Siluk/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesNo one knows just how many Indigenous girls or women go missing each year.
There are estimates. In 2019, 8,162 Indigenous youth and 2,285 Indigenous adults were reported missing to...
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