So why is this a thing?

[.455_Hunter]

"We have represented in our Coloradans hundreds of tribal nations of folks who call Colorado home, who also experienced violence and also are experiencing a lack of our supportive resources and responses that have those cultural components,"

"Too few of us were aware that this problem existed and how extraordinarily disproportionately this kind of crime impacts Indigenous Coloradans and Indigenous Americans across the country,"

Sounds like a bunch of racially biased doublespeak. It will be an interesting discussion when the first "non-indigenous" family is denied such an alert because the missing person is not a member of an entitled class. Standby by for other "preferred" groups to claim they need special alerts too.

This sort of thing is exactly why we have increasing racial tensions in this country- divide the population and put certain groups on a pedestal for special attention.