Community | July 22, 2010 | 7 comments

Major Federal Action on Indian Violent Crime Set to be Enacted

source: http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/politics/Tribal-Law-and-Order-Act-to-become-law-at-cost-to...

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President Obama is expected to sign into law sweeping legislation aimed at addressing the truly troubling statistics on violent crime throughout Indian country. It provides access to federal databases for Tribal Police conducting investigations into violent crime. It mandates standards and institutes training for Tribal Police and Indian Health Centers in how to properly address cases of sexual assault, and for the first time forces the federal government to disclose cases it doesn't pursue. In receiving the legislation, President Obama made a marked admonission of the status of violent crime in Indian communities which stands at rates ten times higher than the national average and talked of the Federal responsibility for it. One objection to the law is that much of the new costs of law enforcement will be Bourne out by tribal governments. However support for this legislation came from both democrats and republicans in large part and from advocacy groups such as Amnesty International, Fort Hall Business Council, Friends Committee on National Legislation, National American Indian Court Judges Association and the National Congress of American Indians.

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7 comments // Major Federal Action on Indian Violent Crime Set to be Enacted

  • ocanada
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      ocanada  

    • It's a pretty major legislation. Just like most things the admnistration does that are good, no one is talking about it????

    • 1 year ago
  • ThoughtNu
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      ThoughtNu  

    • People fighting in the streets, over 10 times national levels, never getting national media attention; gets national legislation quietly passed... smells funny

    • 1 year ago
  • ocanada
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      ocanada  
    • ThoughtNu:

      Byron Dorgan had it placed as his highest priority and had been working on it since 2008. It was placed along the congressional calender in a rush to get long planned legislation on the books, like the tomnibus, and the upcoming votes on Virginia's Indians getting federal recognition and sovereign status for Hawaiin and Alaskan natives. Those have less bipartisan support.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThoughtNu
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      ThoughtNu  
    • ocanada:

      Yes ,Byron has been fighting for recognition of this issue but many tribes have no official recognition.( Hawaiian, Alaskan, Caribbean were not included in the 1914 Dawes roll)

    • 1 year ago
  • ocanada
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      ocanada  
    • ThoughtNu:

      Don't forget Virginia. I think that with Mcluski and perhaps lugars support that the bill will advance this time. It's on the Senate calendar and this passed exceedingly well.

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
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