Violent crimes not resolved in the Amerindian communities to attract more attention with the overvoltage of the FBI

By Susan Montoya Bryan

Albuquerque, NM (AP) – The FBI sends additional agents, analysts and other staff members in the field offices in 10 states in the next six months to help investigate violent crimes not resolved in the Indian country, marking a continuation of the federal government’s efforts to combat high rates of violence affecting Amerindian communities.

The United States Ministry of Justice announced Tuesday that temporary assignments started immediately and will run every 90 days in the field offices that include Albuquerque, Phoenix, Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Portland, Oregon and Jackson, Mississippi.

The FBI will work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs missing and murdered unity, tribal authorities and federal prosecutors in each states.

“Crime rates in the native communities in America and Alaska are unacceptably high,” the US prosecutor Pamela Bondi said in a statement. “By increasing the FBI resources and collaborating in close collaboration with American lawyers and tribal police to continue business, the Ministry of Justice will help to hand over the responsibility that these communities deserve.”

The work to fight against the decades crisis date back to the first term of President Donald Trump, when he created a special working group aimed at limiting the high rate of murders and disappearances among the Amerindians and the Alastka.

President Joe Biden published his own decree on public security in 2021, then the internal secretary Deb Haaland launched efforts to implement the non -invisible law, accusing a federal commission to find ways to improve the way in which the government responded to cases of Indian countries. Public meetings took place throughout the country as part of the effort.

In 2023, the Ministry of Justice established its missing and murdered Aboriginal awareness program, sending more lawyers and coordinators to some regions to help unresolved cases.

In recent years, the FBI operation that has not been forgotten had deployed around 50 people. This year, it is 60.

According to federal authorities, the FBI Indian country program received 4,300 surveys open at the start of the fiscal year. This included more than 900 surveys on deaths, 1,000 surveys on children’s abuse and more than 500 cases of domestic violence and sexual abuse for adults.

The operation in the past two years has supported more than 500 surveys, leading to the recovery of 10 children victims and the arrests of more than 50 suspects.

Originally published: April 1, 2025 at 4:46 p.m.