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    BIA head hopes “community policing” cuts rez crime

    By Carson Walker
    Sioux Falls, South Dakota (AP)

    Besides adding officers to American Indian reservations plagued by crime, a concept called community policing promises to give people ownership of those areas, according to Pat Ragsdale, director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

    The approach already is working on the Standing Rock Reservation and could help ease some of the ills on the Pine Ridge reservation, he said.

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