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Policing in Indian Country
Michael L. Barker
(Paperback)
1998, 135 pages
ISBN: 0-911577-44-0
$25.00

A study examines the history of and current methods used by Native-American policing agencies. Data were obtained from field visits to the Great Plains Reservation Trial Police Department, agency reports and secondary sources.

Early Native-American justice differed significantly from that of the European settlers, especially in its primary emphasis on restitution and community harmony. However, the vast majority of tribal police departments today rigidly adhere to the bureaucratic, crime-control model of policing. Absent from the Great Plains tribal police force was any involvement in alternative policing strategies such as community policing, foot patrol, neighborhood police stations, or problem-solving training for officers. With only a single exception, all tribal members consulted during the course of the research approved of the crime-control policing style provided by the Great Plains department.

This study, based on extensive interviews and reviews of published material by police departments in Indian country, offers a rare glimpse into the ways in which Indian territories are policed, especially their organization, and the way police officers think about their work.

Contents: Preface by David Bayley. 1. Traditional American Indian Methods of Social Control. 2. Evolution of the Contemporary American Indian Policing Structure. 3. The Legislative Attack on Traditional Native Social Control. 4. The Jurisdictional Challenges to Native Social Control. 5. An American Indian Tribal Policing Department. 6. The Traditionalist Alternative: Does it Exist? Bibliography. Index.

In the foreword, noted police researcher Prof. David Bayley (SUNY at Albany) says, "This book is an accessible introduction to a topic which has been largely, if not completely, overlooked. The American Indian tribal policing system remains, at least amongst policing scholars, something of an enigma -- due in large part, no doubt, to the near dearth of scholarly literature on the topic."

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