Allender(Police Chief)hears from N.Rapid(I wish we would only use force against white people)

Allender(Police Chief)hears from N.Rapid(I wish we would only use force against white people): Allender said more than 50 percent of the Rapid City Police

Department's arrests are of Native Americans -- far larger than the Native share of the population. He noted that a large number of those involved both victims and perpetrators who are Native Americans. "We have more contact with Native American people than we do non-Native; I can't lie about that," he said.

After multiple speakers called on the police department to hire more Native officers, Allender said the police department had tried and failed in the past.

"If you have a great idea for how we can go out and get little Native American boys and girls interested in being law enforcement officers in Rapid City, I'm all for it," he said...........

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