Soon after Kevin Brown joined the Nez Perce Tribal Police Department in April 2018, he saw “huge red flags” in the way justice was being meted out on the sprawling reservation in central Idaho, he said.

Over the next four years, as he continued to respond to calls and make arrests, Brown said he saw patterns of misconduct among police-department administrators that led to a host of problems for tribal residents, including:

selective enforcement of the law;

protection of certain individuals connected to tribal government or police;

officers being locked out of their own case files;

high recidivism rates due to an ineffective tribal justice system.

jurisdictional confusion between tribal, county and state law enforcement.

Brown — who has over 20 years of experience in military and loc

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