So why is this a thing?

[.455_Hunter]

Minority group with a massive overrepresentation in crimes committed against Women and kids. I?m all for helping solve that issue. There aren?t going to be resources pulled from other missing minority groups. Not sure why anyone would be upset with helping find missing people.

All of that is fine expect for why they need a race based alert system when others are already available. I have no issues with funds being directed towards problem areas.

[Eric P]

What Clint said. Minority group with a massive overrepresentation in crimes committed against Women and kids. I?m all for helping solve that issue. There aren?t going to be resources pulled from other missing minority groups. Not sure why anyone would be upset with helping find missing people.

Duplicative government function. Why do it once when doing twice costs more but ends with the same result.

Government waste. $600k diverted from being used elsewhere. The Indians could cooperate without the extra money. An alert can be sent without creating a new system. But if you have ever been in the 4 corners area, tribe vs tribe hatred and segregation.

This is nothing but $600k being flushed for votes and the appearance of doing something.

[Joe_K]

Duplicative government function. Why do it once when doing twice costs more but ends with the same result.

Government waste. $600k diverted from being used elsewhere. The Indians could cooperate without the extra money. An alert can be sent without creating a new system. But if you have ever been in the 4 corners area, tribe vs tribe hatred and segregation.

This is nothing but $600k being flushed for votes and the appearance of doing something.

The $ isn?t going to fight some dumb foreign war, give free healthcare to illegal aliens, or funding a gender fluid studies program, it?s being used to coordinate with the various Sovereign Nations that exist within our Nation. If it ends up not recovering a single missing person and all the money goes to pay for a Politicians drug habit, then it will have been $ wasted, but until then, at face value it?s a noble cause.

[JohnnyDrama]

Duplicative government function. Why do it once when doing twice costs more but ends with the same result.

Government waste. $600k diverted from being used elsewhere. The Indians could cooperate without the extra money. An alert can be sent without creating a new system. But if you have ever been in the 4 corners area, tribe vs tribe hatred and segregation.

This is nothing but $600k being flushed for votes and the appearance of doing something.

Winner, winner....

From the Four Corners area. The FBI leaves tribal issues to the tribes and the tribes don't communicate much between themselves. Sovereignty, cultural identity, heritage, and all that.... Sure the government could expand existing programs to include missing indigenous people but then the missing person would be treated just like another missing person. We can't have the cultural distinctions being blurred.

[Ah Pook]

Turned off the Amber Alert. Turned off the Silver Alert. Will turn off Indigenous Person Alert.

No problem.

[Little Dutch]

Turned off the Amber Alert. Turned off the Silver Alert. Will turn off Indigenous Person Alert.

No problem.

There is one problem with that; my android turns them back on after every phone update.

Otherwise, yeah, I?ve got mine all turned off as well. As do all my friends, family, and coworkers.

[WETWRKS]

Typically the missing native people are ignored and don't get noticed by news and other reporting agencies. While I am almost always against racial based things of this nature...in this case I do see grounds for a need.

[Gman]

Identity politics.

I understand the problem. There are ways to leverage what we already have to resolve it.

[Clint45]

Respectfully, a LOT of young indigenous women go missing every year. A widely disproportionate number. Serial predators seem to view them as disposable and know the tribal police lack the resources to conduct a proper investigation, and consider their risk of being caught rather low.,

[WETWRKS]

Respectfully, a LOT of young indigenous women go missing every year. A widely disproportionate number. Serial predators seem to view them as disposable and know the tribal police lack the resources to conduct a proper investigation, and consider their risk of being caught rather low.,

Agreed. I would likely have issues if this were being done for just about any other demographic. This seems to actually be needed.