Sentence examples for violent reservation from inspiring English sources
And at times, according to federal data, the Justice Department declines to prosecute violent reservation crime because local United States attorneys have said they lack sufficient resources.
An incendiary and violent jobs reservation protest by young people from a community known as Jats in Haryana was close to bringing the capital of India, New Delhi to a standstill.
"I feel bad saying that," said Sarah Deer, a law professor at William Mitchell College of Law in Minnesota and an authority on violent crime on reservations.
In response to the surge in violent crime on reservations, President Clinton proposed increasing the 1999 law-enforcement budget for the Bureau of Indian Affairs by $25 million, to $100 million.
But many Indians say that the crime problem is connected to the failure of F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors to take violent acts on reservations as seriously as they do crimes elsewhere.
Tribal leaders say alcohol is the cause of more than 90 percent of the reservation's violent crime, and a quarter of children there are born with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
The rate of violent crime on Indian reservations has for decades been far higher than in the rest of the nation.
The Justice Department on Monday ordered prosecutors in 33 states to intensify efforts to fight violent crime on Indian reservations, particularly offenses against women and children.
The country's 310 Indian reservations have violent crime rates that are more than two and a half times higher than the national average, according to data compiled by the Justice Department.
Prosecuting violent crimes on Indian reservations falls to the Justice Department, and Purdon himself had worked similar cases as a public defender before taking on the U.S. attorney job.
Violent crime rates on the reservation were three times higher than in surrounding cities last year, according to Sheriff's Department statistics, and 911 calls from the casino have risen steadily since 2006.
