'One of our goals for (missing and murdered Indigenous persons) is to solve these crimes and to put people in jail,' said state MMIP coordinator Lonny Piscoya, whose unit is making progress on multiple cases.
Retired Alaska State Trooper Lonny Piscoya, a 25-year veteran of the force, started Sept. 19, 2022 as the state’s new coordinator for solving cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous people. to the Alaska Department of Public Safety to lead the state’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative.
He began his career as a trooper in 1993, moving from Nome to Fairbanks. Piscoya returned to the department in September 2022. this week, saying the department is working to solve cases involving the missing and murdered – and that communication is an important factor in helping find leads and prosecute offenders.
“One of the mandates for Savanna’s Act is communication, we must communicate amongst ourselves and share information and create things,” Piscoya said. “We not only have to handle the crimes involved, but we have to do a better job with the victims. after the crimes … not necessarily the victims of murder, but the family, survivors that have been associated with their loved one being killed or murdered or missing.
Piscoya said recognition of the missing and murdered is not just confined to Alaska. It’s growing everywhere. “American Indian and Alaska Native peoples have a higher murder rate than the national average,” Piscoya said. “It’s just, it’s horrible. I think one of one of the reasons why MMIP was created, and has become a big movement, is it’s not only happening in Alaska, it’s happening everywhere in the Lower 48.”a case with roots in Western Alaska,“There’s a case involving a Hooper Bay woman that was found murdered, and she was dumped on the side of the highway at Milepost 81 of the Parks Highway.
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