Posted on 09/01/2014 9:20:45 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Endemic rape, sex trafficking and appalling levels of domestic violence: Why the US and Canadian Arctic is one of the world's most dangerous places to be a woman
On a freezing night last February, the body of 13-year-old Mackenzie Howard was found lying in the back porch of the church in the tiny, remote village of Kake, Alaska. She had been battered to death.
In one of the world’s most hazardous natural environments, the real dangers for women living in the Arctic come not from polar bears or cracking ice but from the men they live among.
Mackenzie Howard’s body lay outside the church in Kake for 11 hours after it was found. With a population of 559, Kake is just one of 75 remote Alaskan villages with no police force.
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I guess they’re trying to take the focus off their sex slave children.
A bit odd: Seems like the Muslim world is killing many thousand Muslim women every year.
And the Arctic (white men in the Arctic) loses .. how many?
The photos that accompany the article certainly don’t match up to the horrors of the story! Smiley people, gorgeous scenery...I can’t wait until The Guardian throws the sex slave kids under the bus to explore this “uniquely American” horror story.
Looks like about 12 people in the entire region. But it IS the Americas so it must be explored in depth.
About 600 actually. I’d always heard that Alaska had a high rate of rape. This story confirms it.
Not to worry. Gore says it’s all gonna melt up there anyway. Then those women will be living in a nice, safe tropical climate. Problem solved.
“the real dangers for women living in the Arctic come not from polar bears or cracking ice but from the men they live among.”
That’s true of women living anywhere.
It’s true for other men anywhere as well.
Biggest danger is always other humans.
It’ helps to have a police force around to combat crime.
Must be really intense news coverage over there in Great Britain.
Stay on them federal highways, now folks. You all drive safely, back to Urban America, where you feel safe.
You really like to post prurient women as victims of men stuff.....like Chet was with his pitbulls
That’s fine but you’re preaching to the choir pretty much....sexual predation of women is unlikely to get much support here
These sexual issues are a problem like alcoholism....amongst the First Nations
Let’s be candid since you posted it.
Its not like all men up north abuse women and kids....its far more common in the tribes
An uncomfortable fact but it ain’t caused by Monday night football
That’s what drives these stats.....
Hasn't helped Rotherham much. And this story isn't going to help them much either.
Never mind Rotherman..Just get a decent police force there.
“According to a survey by the Federation of Natives reported in the New York Times, rates of sexual violence in the US’s largest state stand at 12 times the national average. Rape nearly four times.”
Sounds dangerous. when the cats away the mice will play.
“Mackenzie’s mother, Marla Howard, added: ‘People don’t really fear the law here.’”
Want to remind you all that this sick bastard once roamed Alaska
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/robert_hansen/index.html
Iraq? Saudi Arabia? Pakistan? London? Anywhere else in muzzie-land?
Yes, I have seen “First Nation” villages first hand. They’re a disaster. Even so, I’d rather live there than among the mohammedans.
Hear tell college campuses ain’t so safe for women either
I’m having a hard time neverminding Rotherham. And I’m having a hard time taking this article seriously, knowing it was just written to take the spotlight off their own shame.
In reading Melanie McGrath’s article about sexual violence and crime in general in the Alaskan Bush I became concerned about some of the things she said. This is because for many years I have spent a lot of time in the Alaskan Bush and know more than the average person walking the streets in the lower 48 about the subject. Indeed, I just got back from a month on the Yukon River, home to many Alaskan Native Villages.
The first inaccuracy , admittedly a relatively minor one, was the distance from Kake to Anchorage. She said a thousand miles. It’s not. It’s 634 by air.
Next was “the body laid outside for 11 hours on a freezing night”. Well, if they had messed with the crime scene they would have got in big trouble and leaving the body in a freezing temp was better, all things considered, than moving it inside in a warm temp.
Getting a State Trooper down to Kake from Anchorage could take 11 hours (for a murder?!) but I doubt it. I have had police come to my aid on a very remote part of the Yukon in 4 hrs and at NO charge even though it was very expensive for two officers to come to where I was.
She says “only 28 villages in Nunavit Province have RCMP Detachments and only 15 of them have 2 people”. My hometown has 2.2 officers per thousand and Albuquerque has 1.9. Some of these “villages” have less than a hundred people in them. One has 5. Some, although listed, have 0. The TOTAL population of Nunavut Province is only 31,000 and that is in an area roughly the size of Western Europe. In this vast area, the most sparsely populated in the world, with 128 officers (excluding staff), Nunavut has 2.4 officers per thousand people.
Melanie opined about how it could take “a day or two” to get an officer down to Kake. I would bet a hundred bucks that that is possibly true for a simple assault or stolen bicycle but NOT a murder with a dead body laying on a porch.
I could go on and on with her inaccuracies and mis-leading statements about this desperately important subject. But, Melanie’s inaccuracies (being nice) skew the REAL problem which is in itself REAL complex but generally it is the thousand plus year old Native Culture and the hostile environment it exists in (doesn’t thrive).
I have found the Native Americans in Alaska and Canada (don’t call em Eskimos!), with precious few exceptions, to be largely sullen and unapproachable. Basically, they fundamentally don’t want the white man there and resent whitey imposing on them any law or any command, ergo they have “Tribal Police” which help some but run up against brick walls (tribal politics) that the big guy state troopers with guns on their hips, don’t.
In addition, the Natives in these villages are all armed and/or have weapons close by and “at the ready”, a necessary practice in this dangerous wilderness they live in but it is a suttle threat when your dealing with them on any level about anything. Ask the families of the two State Troopers a couple of Native Americans recently murdered while they were investigating a simple assault they had been called all the way to Tanana for.
Melanie McGrath commendably is dealing with a SEVERE issue regarding violence against women in these villages. But, I wish she would propose some doable solutions rather than sensationalizing and embellishing the facts to sell her story and likely promote herself.
To change the culture is not a cop thing, it is an education thing! “REQUIRING” these village ELDERS to sit in some EDUCATION classes (say 100 hours, first offense) and perform some substantial community service EVERY TIME there is an incident is more likely to yield a safer environment for women sooner than more cops! The ELDERS can put a stop to this activity if they were properly motivated.
So, does pacifist Canadian politics allow for some big strong white cops to go into these villages and kick some butts to force them to sit in education classes and do community service? I doubt it. That’s another related problem, i.e. Canadian pacifism/politics itself.
AND, these “armed” elders “ain’t gonna cotton to whitey forcing them to sit in a classroom”.
Finally, on those cold nights when there is nothing else to do some of them are still going to go “on the prowl” or crawl in bed with their own children as they have been doing for a thousand years.
So Melanie! I suggest a rewrite and a little more research and perhaps a month with me on the Yukon! More Cops ain’t the problem or the cure!!!..............for sure!
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