In small Alaska city, Native women say police ignored rapes

; and showing less concern about rape complaints from African Americans, Native Americans and other less powerful groups.

The group, worried about a backlash, had met quietly on the edge of town for three years to plan their efforts. At first members tried to work behind the scenes with police and city leaders, but made little headway. They finally went public with their concerns in the spring of 2018. Habros finally sent a video statement to the Alaska State Troopers. The troopers’ investigation of the case ultimately led to the murder conviction of Nome Police Officer Matthew Clay Owens.

Soon after Taylor departed, Craig Moates flew in from Tennessee to take over the police department. Moates made a whirlwind tour of villages, saying it was his top priority to heal relations with the Native community. He promised to look into allegations of police misconduct. Jim LaBelle, who is Inupiaq and is a member of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, said Alaska Natives who have suffered sexual trauma often have few places to turn for help, and there are no protocols for healing entire communities that are still suffering. Many get comfort from embracing centuries-old traditions of subsistence living, he said, but they find even this alternative limited by legal restrictions on hunting and fishing.

On the night Susie says everything changed for her, she had come from her village farther north to visit a cousin in Nome. At a bar, she encountered a man she knew from another village who lived in Nome. According to the notes compiled by Barbara Cromwell, the lead forensic nurse at Nome’s Norton Sound Regional Hospital, Susie said the man bought her three shots of liquor — “I was just feeling a little bit ‘somewhere,’ but I wasn’t drunk.

“So I was like . . . must not be important enough,” Susie says. “Us Natives must not be important enough.”Under Cromwell’s direction, Norton Sound Regional’s forensic nursing program — established in 2010 to provide specialized care to victims of sexual assault and other violence — has grown. Cromwell said she was shocked when a Nome police officer casually let it slip in 2017 that police were regularly “weeding out” some sexual assaults on the spot, without bringing women to the hospital for an exam and an interview with someone trained in dealing with traumatized victims.

Wondering how long it'll be before Nome head of police gets installed by Trump to be in charge of women's rights and handling of sex-crimes in the US. Fits the 'get the least qualified person to head a department' MO of this administration.

Probably because they are the most prevalent predators in Alaska , or shouldn’t be there doing fuck all . Shows how much they enjoy their job! obviously not.

This country doesn't give a damn about human suffering if you are, a POC, a woman or LGBTQ.

What else is there to do in Nome?

mr_jettlife i heard about these stories...these sick ppl get away with anything

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