Wind River - crime

(http://www.wyofile.com/specialreport/health-care-coverage-on-the-wind-river-indian-reservation/ - base of Wind River Indian reservation)

I never knew about Indian reservations at all, except the fact that they were reserved land that held Native Americans. I especially didn't know about Wind River or the multiple dangerous reservations, so I definitely learned a ton from the incidents and what those incidents led to the bigger problem. The Wind River crimes, along with the Indian reservation crime rate as a whole, were really acknowledged by the Obama administration realizing the problem and filed for a two-year crime fighting initiative called the "surge". The "surge" reduced four to three reservations by swarming the areas with federal agencies and National Park Service officers. I learned that Wind River is among the most dangerous of Indian reservations, being five to seven times the national average crime rate of homicides. The homicides were brutal, such as the story murder of the 13-year-old girl getting kidnapped and left under a tree with no clothes, and the 25-year-old man beaten by a car seat and a dumbbell. I never knew how unpeaceful Indian reservations really were.

(https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/the-mixed-messages-of-wind-river/536448/ - 'Wind River's FBI agent, Elizabeth Olsen, and local hunter, Jeremy Render)

I then found out there was a movie made about the incidents, and brought attention towards the reservation crimes happening still. The movie was inspired by the brutality and despair of the crimes. It starts off when a local goes hunting and finds a frozen dead, Native American, female body, which starts a whole investigation with the FBI. The actors and actresses, according to the review, were good at capturing the devastation. The movie then ended with the murder being answered, but within the credits, shows the reality of crimes still being unanswered by mentioning all the names of Native American females still missing. The movie was more about Wind River, being called 'Wind River', but it really brings awareness to the national government.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/us/on-indian-reservations-higher-crime-and-fewer-prosecutions.htmlmystery-thriller-wind-riv - local death of son)

I started to research more into the broad expense of reservation crimes going unanswered and found that the Indian reservations all around the US are depressing and have many problems, one being how the average expectation to live age is 49, 20 years younger than Iraq. The reservations are also seemingly haunted by past massacred tribes and have bad and good vibes and spirits all around. The crimes, overseen by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, say that they happen because the people ignore reporting offenses, which is not surprising since we learned in class that the men of the Bureau of Indian Affairs are fairly incompetent. Recently, Indian reservations have higher crime with lesser prosecutions. I found that the Justice Department, supposedly in charge of prosecuting the Indian Country serious crimes within reservations, are only filing half of the charges and ignoring two-thirds of the sexual assaults. They claim that the local US attorneys say that they "lack sufficient resources", and they cannot prosecute without being sure, which I think is incompetence in itself because of how serious these crimes are. The Justice Department also rarely turn the crimes' evidence over to their tribal courts. Federal officers say that they're "limited because the cases may be reopened later", and the government doesn't want to create more problems by filing the charges. The Indian reservation crime rates are so high because the crimes are not acknowledged, nor taken care of.