The Oglala Sioux Tribe will lose 75 percent of its police force when a federal law enforcement grant dries up in September 2005.
The tribe's Department of Public Safety currently has 86 officers on the force. Funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs pays for 29 officers while a Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant pays for 57 more officers.
But the two-year, $4.5 million COPS grant is due to expire next year. The tribe says it has no money to replace the loss.
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Reservation force faces big losses
(The Rapid City Journal 7/26)
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Oglala Sioux Tribe to lose 75 percent of police force
Monday, July 26, 2004
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