Standing Rock to Get More Cops

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is assigning additional police officers to crack down on juvenile and drug-related crime on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, the Argus Leader reported today. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., has been pushing the BIA for months to beef up police protection on the reservation, which stretches for 100 miles along the South Dakota and North Dakota border. The agency employs nine officers to patrol the reservation’s 12 communities. The reservation once had 20 BIA police officers.