Most respondents for the most serious law-and-order problems question provided lists with multiple issues or crimes, and often indicated t...
Most respondents for the most serious law-and-order problems question provided lists with multiple issues or crimes, and often indicated the interrelatedness of several crimes. Thus, crimes seem to come in related bundles. Drug and alcohol offenses were seen by many respondents as root causes of other related crimes and law-and-order issues. If we consider each respondent’s response as a bundle of related issues or crimes, rather than independent issues, then another way of observing and analyzing the most serious law-and-order problems data is possible. For example, a respondent might say that the most serious law-and-order problems are drug use, alcohol use, domestic violence, and violence. Each respondent gave a list of most serious law-and-order problems.
By counting the number of responses that include drug offenses, alcohol abuse, and domestic violence, a measure of the three most frequent law-andorder problems is achieved. Those respondents who do not mention alcohol, drug abuse, or domestic violence, then are counter cases and are suggesting alternative interpretations for the Percentage of respondents citing drug offenses, alcohol abuse, or domestic violence Reservation Residents Law Enforcement Personnel Criminal Justice Personnel Public Law 280 Non-Public Law 280 78.6% N=154 n=121 92.6% N=27 n=25 76% N=50 n=38 80% N=65 n=52 87.5% N=16 n=14 93.1% N=29 n=27 Figure 10.11 most serious law-and-order problems. Instead of considering each issue or crime in isolation, 301 This document is a research report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice. This report has not been published by the Department. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. respondent lists are counted as interrelated bundles of crime or law-and-order issues. As shown in Figure 10.11,
our sample in a 2X3X2 log-linear analysis yields no statistically significant results for jurisdiction, group, or interaction effects. Public Law 280 and non-Public Law 280 respondents agree that drug offenses, alcohol abuse, and domestic violence and related crimes and issues are the most serious law-and-order problems (G square = .08, df = 1, p=.78, NS). Reservation residents, law enforcement personnel, and criminal justice personnel agree that drug offenses, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and related crimes and issues are the most serious law-and-order problems for reservations (G square = 2, df = 2, p=.37, NS). The interaction effect is not significant (G square = 8.1, df = 7, p = .32, NS). Respondents say that the most serious law-and-order problems are drug offenses, alcohol abuse, and domestic violence. All groups in both jurisdictions agree that drug offenses, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and related crimes and issues are the most serious law-and-order problems confronting reservation communities. Some comments about drug offenses, alcohol abuse, and domestic violence as the most serious problems for law and order include: Drugs. Without a doubt. Drugs. And alcohol … methamphetamines? I think that is probably the worse one, yeah. Like every reservation, the bulk of the crime is transient children, child sexual assaults.
It’s got to be your most prevalent crime anywhere on a reservation. Narcotics. (On the reservation), they have got some narcotics issues up there. And then the small crimes would be thefts and domestic violence. I think drugs is one of them. I know there is a lot of drugs going on up there. … There has been a number of murders because of drinking and getting beat up. Gang fights. Our most serious problems are chemical and drug use. Definitely. We do have a large concern with, because of human services, we have a lot of concern with domestic child-protection issues. Actually, criminal activities are farther down the list than chemical dependency issues, the drug use, child protection issues, like that. Theft and drugs. And drugs among young people. 12-, 13-, 14-year-olds, that I know adults are providing for them, and how come we are not catching them? If we know, everybody seems to know who is who, but nobody will tell us. Sexual abuse of children and women, adult women ... the violence. 302 This document is a research report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice. This report has not been published by the Department. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Domestic violence ... I think domestic violence and chemical dependence … I don’t think we [have] ever had a domestic violence where there wasn’t alcohol involved. Drugs, alcohol, and domestic abuse. Assaults, domestic assaults, stealing of cars, intoxication.
I would say just violence in general. I think the drug use is a large problem here. There is a lot of crack, methamphetamine use, and joblessness creates that problem. On this reservation, we have a high population and a small land base, and there are no jobs. ... There is a homelessness here. … If homelessness is at 581 (families) now, it will be over 1,000 in 10 years. (T)here are limited jobs, and with unemployment comes a lot of problems that come hand-and-hand with unemployment. And there tends to be high alcoholism rates with higher unemployment rates, and domestic violence issues are higher. So, I would say that drugs and alcohol and domestic violence would be pretty serious problems, not only on the reservation here but in the surrounding communities, as well. Probably DUI. We are having a lot of people being beaten up and just left to die. That is serious beating up … they use all kinds of weapons now. And most times they are violent, either on drugs or under the influence of alcohol, and they are really violent. We are finding that a lot of older people drink, they get out or lose control, and the kids take advantage of that opportunity and beat them up. ... Now we are getting into drugs. Meth ... it’s a major epidemic here, and it’s not good.
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