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181 MMNHWG REPORT PRELIMINARY RECOMMENDATIONS This report should be contextualized as a stepping stone to continuing this work. It will take many more years of targeted efforts in research, policy, and practice to gain the data necessary to under- stand the full scope of violence against NHWG and implement recommendations that can prevent this violence from continuing. UNIVERSAL, SYSTEMIZED DATA COLLECTION Although the lack of data about MMNHWG is evi- Data collection is specifically hindered by: dent, the data that is available, and the experienc- 1. A lack of disaggregated racial data,- es ata;es of survivors of NHWG violence, demonstrates a critical need for more structured, systematic, and 2. A lack of data collection regarding race/ streamlined data collection between governmen- ethnicity, gender/sexuality, and other de- urographic indicators in general; tal agencies. 3. A lack of a uniform and clear process for Colonization, as embedded in every inch and sharing data publicly and between agen- corner of every system, rneans that quantitative cies; data is not neutral. Indigenous erasure happens not only via the murder and displacing of NHWG, 4. Underreporting of crimes that lead to but also the erasure of NHWG in the data itself. MMNHWG such as sex trafficking; and The conflating of "Native Hawaiian" with "Oth- er Pacific Islander" and "Native Hawaiian" with 5. Racial misidentification. "Asian" leaves the statistical story of violence Although data aggregation is often used as an against NHWG incomplete. approach to increase sample size and statistical power when analyzing data from smaller popu- _ Survivors of violence, family members of survi- lation groups, it can limit the understanding of vors, and service providers are keen to the real- disparities among diverse subpopulations such as ities of this crisis in Hawaii and data collection Kanaka Mach. The data that does exist regarding efforts by governmental agencies need to better the systemic inequities that lead to MMNHWG reflect these realities. is typically not disaggregated by race/ethnicity and is not stored by the DOH or other entities Given the sensitive and complex nature of NHWG in a way that allows for multivariate analyses or violence, the current state of incomplete and analyses that can look at multiple variables (i.e., inconsistent data collection on NHWG violence Race AND sex AND age) at once. The scarcity of across law enforcement and other governmental reliable, disaggregated data that can be analyzed agencies, it is highly likely that the true depth of with the complexity that understanding the crisis the problem of NHWG violence is underestimat- of MMNHWG requires is a huge barrier to under- ed. standing problerns and solutions.