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  In Canada a tonne of missing aboriginal men are killed attempting to steal from rural property owners. 
  I wonder if it's the same in rural Colorado?
context: Can't we just issue a missing person alert? Makes no sense slicing and dicing into races/issues/other things that don't matter when A PERSON IS MISSING. Isn't that what's important? >
  
  If you read the article, it says...
  
  "The Senate Bill, signed into law by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on July 1, 2022, acknowledged the unique challenges that stem from these cases, which includes poor and inconsistent reporting, lack of interagency cooperation, and misclassification of racial identity. Part of the bill required the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to operate a missing Indigenous person alert program."
  
  Oh, and the related headlines below the article demonstrate why this is extremely necessary...
  
  
  Family of murdered Indigenous woman believes her death could have been prevented
  
  
  National response for Petito was appropriate, but should apply to Indigenous people too, Colorado advocates say
  
  
  'We’re going to follow everything': Alamosa County mother remains vigilant in search for her daughter missing since 2019
  
  
  Indigenous communities investing in keeping their languages alive
  
  
  Report: More than 700 Indigenous people reported missing in Wyoming over past decade
  
  
  Indigenous, Native American tribes are pushing for voting rights >
  
  You're being fed a line that is making people pit against each other.  It's being sold as a comforting inclusive thing, but the important thing is people. People.  The more we separate helping people in a way different than others....even for these comforting reasons, the end result is an us against them mentality perpetuation. We are being bluffed into thinking this is all for good reasons.  We now live in a world where it's offensive to just help people regardless of who they are just because they need help no matter what they happen to be.  Soon we'll have 50 different kind of alerts.  Don't you see that splitting people into categories is a bad thing.  Helping should be helping no matter what you happen to be.  Sad that people will see this comment as offensive. >
  
  Texas already has a host of alerts in addition to the well known AMBER Alert.
  There's AMBER, Silver, Blue, Endangered Missing Person, Clear and Camo. I don't think a Camo alert has been issued yet. So, seeing Colorado try out MIPA seems like a good sign. >
  
  Well, to be fair, it is a Camo alert. It’s difficult to see. >
  
  Yeah, but not as difficult as the stealth alerts. Man, those ones are tough to spot... >
  
  What conditions make it necessary to distinguish these from the general category of missing persons? >
  
  Who you're trying to pander votes from. >
  
  So, Colorado has to implement a missing person system for Native Americans because?  
  Should we surmise that, just possibly, Colorado's bureau of investigation, state and local police have previously ignored or failed to respond to reports of missing persons because of their ethnic origin?  
  The article would certainly make one prone to such inference. >
  
  Because.... As stated in the article, "the Senate Bill, signed into law by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on July 1, 2022, acknowledged the unique challenges that stem from these cases, which includes poor and inconsistent reporting, lack of interagency cooperation, and misclassification of racial identity." Sovereign tribal nations have rough interagency cooperation with all the agencies you named plus especially with the FBI.