<br /> U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Friday declared a public-safety emergency in rural Alaska.<br />According to Reuters, Barr also pledged $10.5 million in federal funds to combat crime there.<br />Alaska has some of the nation’s worst rates of sexual assault, child abuse and other violent crimes.<br />Rural Alaskans suffer from extraordinarily high rates of rape and domestic violence and a lack of police officers.<br />About a third of Alaska Native villages lack local law-enforcement services. <br />
