Law Enforcement

RCMP take over policing duties on the Blackfoot Reserve due to fiscal mismanagement, but native force had experienced other problems as well.

Report on finding of investigation by RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) members for complaints against other members involving injuries or death in Canada between April 1, 2002 and March 1, 2007.

Provides brief overview of issues related to police protection, identifies and discusses seven major policy options, and sets out questions for further discussion.

Compares demographic and socio-economic characteristics and overall crime trends.

Three main sources of data were the 1996 Census of the Population and the 1997 aggregate and incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR).

Reports on the 1,167 reported incidents that were motivated by hate in Canada in 2013.

Describes the strides taken by the Saskatoon police to ensure a welcoming environment for the aboriginal community in the new police headquarters, including a cultural room and a memorial for murdered and missing women. Article located by scrolling to pages 3 and 14.

Discusses the history of policing in the area, main characteristics and challenges of the Kativik Regional Police Force, and Nunavimmiut perceptions and experiences of law enforcement. Concludes with specific action priorities to improve relations.

Argues that Saskatoon Police Service's refusal to accept blame in the death of Neil Stonechild, despite the findings of Justice David Wright's final report, has serious ramifications for improved relations between Aboriginals and the city's other residents.

Study examines the ratios of Indigenous people and Indigenous woman that are stopped, searched, and arrested in Minneapolis within the study period.

Chronicles the NWMP (RNWMP now RCMP) force's successes and failures in enforcing liquor laws.

Examines the role of police in Aboriginal protests and makes several recommendations to reduce tensions in future incidents.

Argues that when dealing with people who occupy a lower socioeconomic position, police officers become part of a network providing social services. On reserves, where access to this network is limited, the police are often viewed as the primary source of personal and community security.

Criminology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1994.

Explores need for change and issues that remain in policing in spite the many inquiries and commissions.

Interview with the author of book, Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People's Encounters with the Police. Duration: 30:25.

Looks at conventional non-native policing, traditional native policing and community-based models of policing.

Study consisted of literature review, visits to Indian police departments and the Indian Police Academy in New Mexico, a two-part survey administered to Indian police departments, and site visits to four reservations.

Looks at Dawson City, the gold rush, Sam Steele and the Northwest Mounted Police, and the truth about violent crimes.

Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2003.

Examines the legal complexities of on and off reservation crime and reviews allegations of police abuse.

A photograph of the poplar bluff near Bellevue, SK, where Almighty Voice, Little Saulteaux, and Dublin, of the One Arrow band died in a fire fight with police and volunteers in 1897.

Residents gathered on the beach at Igloolik, N.W.T. [NU].

Photograph of a Cree man alleged to be Almighty Voice, famed for his standoff against the North West Mounted Police. Almighty Voice was from the One Arrow First Nation.

Book review of: Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History by Bain Attwood with Helen Doyle. Review located by scrolling to page 245.

Estimate of the potential use of safer injecting site by local illicit drug users and evaluates potential impact of newly established Health Canada restrictions and police activities.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 1986. Focuses on the Battleford and Clandeboye Agencies.

Overview of relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the NWMP (RCMP), including evolution of the Special Constable Program.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Manitoba, 2003.

Looks at mandatory sentencing and crime in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--The University of British Columbia, 2006.

Uses a victimization-criminalization-incarceration cycle concept to describe the various factors that impact Indigenous women and contribute to their overrepresentation in the prison system.

Includes statistics specific to Aboriginals. Data primarily from the Census of Population.

Examines Euro-Canadian criminal justice system, aboriginal systems of control and circumstances leading to incarceration.

Describes the Aboriginal Police Preparation program, offered in Prince Albert, Saskatoon, and Regina, Saskatchewan, which is designed to introduce youth to the field of law enforcement. Article found by scrolling to page 8.

Inventory compiled by Research Branch of Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) lists all adult and youth institutional and community programming in federal and provincial/territorial jurisdictions.

Special Constables program for Aboriginals discussed by Attorney General's Department, Federation of Saskatchewan Indians, Indian Affairs, Chiefs from the Yorkton District and the R.C.M.P.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2008.

Book review of: Protest, Land Rights and Riots by Barry Morris. Scroll down to page 215 to read the review.

Special Constable program awaits final approval by Chiefs of Saskatchewan.

Elderly woman seated by a fire with pot hanging over. Wood home in the background.

Titled: "Inkinnaii, Old Cree Warrior". Drawing bow and arrow in front of teepee.

Looks at effects of PL 280 which shifted federal jurisdiction of offences to states creating jurisdictional uncertainty and lack of funding for law enforcement.