BIA - Standing Rock/Ft. Yates

[Menoch]

Originally Posted by itsMeFred

My point exactly.
This isn't some big city. This isn't even a small city...

I got you... and I hear you... It is what it is I guess though.

[ursa22]

You will not be bored working as a cop on Standing Rock. The two "surges" worked about like they did in Afghanistan- the local bad actors patiently await a troop withdrawal and go back to business as usual.
I have many relatives on Standing Rock and grew up on similar reservations.

I'll share a personal anecdote-
Several years ago I was transferred to Chicago, Illinois at a time when crack cocaine had a grip on the city and the murder rate was very high.
My job entailed picking up piggy back trailers at rail yards throughout Chicagoland at night. Most of the rail yards were near high crime public housing projects. Co-workers repeatedly warned me about the dangers involved and the shenanigans the locals involved themselves in. Honestly, the warnings had me thinking that I was in for it- I was getting nervous.
After a few nights of the rail yards, I realized that the public housing dwellers were rank amateurs compared with many of the guys that I grew up with.

[Menoch]

Originally Posted by ursa22

You will not be bored working as a cop on Standing Rock. The two "surges" worked about like they did in Afghanistan- the local bad actors patiently await a troop withdrawal and go back to business as usual.
I have many relatives on Standing Rock and grew up on similar reservations.

I'll share a personal anecdote-
Several years ago I was transferred to Chicago, Illinois at a time when crack cocaine had a grip on the city and the murder rate was very high.
My job entailed picking up piggy back trailers at rail yards throughout Chicagoland at night. Most of the rail yards were near high crime public housing projects. Co-workers repeatedly warned me about the dangers involved and the shenanigans the locals involved themselves in. Honestly, the warnings had me thinking that I was in for it- I was getting nervous.
After a few nights of the rail yards, I realized that the public housing dwellers were rank amateurs compared with many of the guys that I grew up with.

Thanks for the reply. Anything you could share about Standing Rock in particular?

[ursa22]

Originally Posted by Menoch

Thanks for the reply. Anything you could share about Standing Rock in particular?

I'll pm you.

[JanND]

I know nothing first hand about living on reservations. I know only what folks have shared that have lived there, worked there. I moved to N.D. from Calif. in 81'. There where I grew up almost all the people of I knew were either mixed race or someone in their family was mixed involving Native American. When I first moved to N.D. I was shocked at the prejudice, it is not often openly discussed, but it is alive and well, and from what I have observed...mutual prejudice. It breaks my heart, as a 60's teen, I was aware of the discrimination of Blacks, and some obvious discrimination of Mexicans where I grew up in Calif.....but it was as an adult here in N.D. 20 years later that I saw such blatant hostility one race towards another. It is still so imo

[ursa22]

Native Americans are overrepresented in North Dakota prisons | Prison Policy Initiative

[itsMeFred]

Jan, I don't know what happened to him.
We called the hospital at Ft. Yates but this was relatively recent. HIPPA laws were already in effect so they couldn't tell us anything.

[JanND]

That is so sad. I am always sad about the conditions on reservations, we as Americans should not be allowing third world conditions to exist in our country. Whether it is a slum in N.Y. or a reservation in S. D. I am ashamed of us.