Federal Government Tells High Court To Scrap Tribal Police Jurisdiction Ruling

Mealey's (January 13, 2021, 8:36 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that Indian police officers do not have jurisdiction to detain a non-Indian suspect on a public road on a reservation is wrong and will have “profound” consequences on law enforcement on reservations with already high crime rates, the federal government maintains in its Jan. 8 brief on the merits in the U.S. Supreme Court....