Alaska enacted a new law to address the high number of murdered or missing Indigenous women and girls. A study published in 2018 by the Urban Indian Health Institute highlighted this situation. According to the survey, Anchorage has the third-highest number of instances in the country, while Alaska has the fourth-highest number of cases overall. One factor contributing to the issue is that a third of Alaska’s remote towns lack law enforcement. Overlapping duties across federal, state, and local entities create another problem: a lack of accountability.