U.S. Warns Of Dire Results If Limitation On Indian Police Jurisdiction Is Allowed

Mealey's (March 15, 2021, 12:42 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A criminal suspect’s suggestion that Indian officers should have no more policing authority than ordinary citizens over possible violations of state and federal law on reservations “would sow confusion and invite serious harm to everyone who lives, works, or simply travels on a reservation,” the federal government cautions in a March 12 reply brief in the U.S. Supreme Court....