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Utah cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people often fall through the cracks. A new report shows why.

Researchers say police delays, bias and confusion over jurisdiction all play into Utah’s failures to properly respond to reports of missing and murdered American Indians.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Carl Moore arranges names of murdered and missing indigenous women and girls at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration in Utah on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. The Legislature's Murdered and Missing Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) Task Force commissioned a report that was released Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, detailing the issue in the state.