Kaelyn Moore

I've learned so much doing this episode and all of it has been bad and upsetting.

Yeah.

Unfortunately.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So back to kind of what we were saying earlier, but jurisdiction issues between tribal and non-native police departments are a big part of the missing and murdered indigenous people crisis.

It's getting a mark.

Advocates say that Native people asking for help often get bounced between tribal, county, and federal law enforcement agencies.

And none of them will take the case or one of them will take the case, but they don't talk to the others.

And it just becomes this whole mess.

In 2021, the U.S.

Supreme Court ruled unanimously that tribal police officers can, quote, investigate and detain non-Native people suspected of committing crimes on tribal land.

But tribal officers say that that does not solve the problem because when they detain a non-native person, they still have to call a non-native law enforcement agency to make an actual arrest.

So tied.

And if nobody shows up, they have no choice but to let the perpetrator go.

So it makes sense that even with all of these calls that were happening to the tribal police for domestic violence and otherwise, Michael was not collecting criminal charges during this time.

By May of 2017, when Jermaine was just 22 years old, it seems like

Maybe she wanted to take things into her own hands because nothing was being done for her case.

One of her sons was two months away from turning three.

Her other son was 17 months old.