A new FBI report, Violence Against American Indian or Alaska Native Females: 2021–2023, provides new data about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) crisis. The report uses data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to identify relationships between victims and offenders, weapons used, locations of incidents and ages of victims in both violent crimes and victims of sexual crimes.
The FBI report analyzed nearly 35,000 incidents of violent and sexual crimes committed against Native American women. Key findings show that firearms are commonly used against the vic...