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Why BIA can't hire enough cops in Montana

The fatal beating, choking and burning of Roylynn Rides Horse, a 28-year-old Crow Agency woman, has rekindled outrage over violence on Montana Indian Reservations. Now that citizens on and off the reservations are paying more attention to public safety needs in these rural, impoverished communities, one dangerous bureaucratic obstacle has become glaringly apparent: It takes a year to decide to put just one new Bureau of Indian Affairs police officer on patrol.

On Monday, Crow Agency Police Chief Jose Figueroa told a Crow Tribal Judicial Committee meeting that he has trouble filling patrol positions because of the time it takes to hire.

So The Gazette called the BIA office in Billings for more information. The editorial writer asked to speak to Doug Noseep, special agent in charge, and was told to contact the media person in Washington, D.C. That D.C. spokeswoman, Nedra Darling, said questions had to be submitted in writing, which The Gazette writer emailed.

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