Because the way the laws are written, the Native law enforcement doesn't have the leeway to give warnings in MOST cases. So the Native women raise a ruckus and torment a jerk who deserves it, but the reservation law enforcement CANNOT let them off with a warning.
I don't know all the details, and there are variations from one area to another in HOW closely these laws are followed, but the rules themselves are so complicated that it's practically impossible to know HOW to charge a white person driving through the reservation for littering, and under whose jurisdiction.
How many American tourists would understand the problem, even? There were news articles recently about reservations setting up COVID checkpoints, with American neighbors who should KNOW BETTER whining that "they didn't have the right."
In fact, I'd bet chocolate that forty-nine out of fifty random people asked couldn't tell WHICH divisions of law enforcement have authority on the reservation, let alone be able to name one exception to the baseline.
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Re: I'm going to introduce
Date: 2021-05-06 04:07 am (UTC)I don't know all the details, and there are variations from one area to another in HOW closely these laws are followed, but the rules themselves are so complicated that it's practically impossible to know HOW to charge a white person driving through the reservation for littering, and under whose jurisdiction.
How many American tourists would understand the problem, even? There were news articles recently about reservations setting up COVID checkpoints, with American neighbors who should KNOW BETTER whining that "they didn't have the right."
In fact, I'd bet chocolate that forty-nine out of fifty random people asked couldn't tell WHICH divisions of law enforcement have authority on the reservation, let alone be able to name one exception to the baseline.