Enforce police presence in all villages in Alaska in an effort to end disturbingly high rape rates.

Alaska's per capita rate of reported rape is the highest in the country, according to 2012 FBI crime data. An estimated 80 rapes are reported in Alaska for every 100,000 people. That's nearly three times the national average of 27; and almost seven times the rate in New Jersey, the state where reported rape is least common. Fifty-nine percent of women in Alaska have experienced sexual or intimate partner violence, and nearly four in 10 have been raped or sexually assaulted, according to a survey of 871 adult women in Alaska, published in 2010 (Information retrieved from the CNN article "The rapist next door"). Currently, 75 villages in Alaska are without police presence. Please sign this petition so that victims will have someone to call, and predators can no longer hide.