Sadly, I can relate too well. I sometimes wonder if the AST is simply continuing along the same lines as the Catholic hierarchy did with priests back in the 50s-60s-70s-80s: sending their defectives out to the bush.
Except the Troopers are going after the elderly and younger members of our family, while the church affected those who are now in the middle. Money fixes none of it, and time is never paid back.
(Nome has some good, but they also harbor some human waste. UNK has Branch - who was part of the pair that made statewide news a few years ago when they were videoed tossing the Native gal around in her own home in Kodiak.)
Rural Alaska life doesn't need help from 'good' people in order to be challenging.
The troopers are worthless, I recently witnessed one tell a 10 year old kid and his 13 year old sister who had been badly beaten by their drunken uncle to “not be so argumentative” with their uncle.
