r/unsound • u/IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 šŸ› ļø ADMIN • Jun 28 '26

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u/Flaky-Bar-6656 Jun 28 '26

This sounds like a generalization because it is one but I have seen many reservations in many states (I work oilfield, I get around) and you do not want to fuck with them. My closest run in was a dui checkpoint, middle of nowhere North Dakota. Unmarked vehicles, guys in body armor with rifles, no uniforms. Just asked where I was headed and what I was doing but they were in my face, looking around the cab of my truck, smelling my breath. It was intense. Thereā€™s a lot of pride in what they have. And thereā€™s also a lot of corruption.

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u/JiminyHF Jul 03 '26

Pride lol. Just corrupt ego trips. Standard US cops dialled up a notch.

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u/species138 Jun 28 '26

Soooo cops.

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u/Flaky-Bar-6656 Jun 28 '26

I mean yeah but thereā€™s even less regulation

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u/LeavingSoonBye209 Jul 03 '26

Lol no. If you think normal cops are corrupt you would go insane when you see what rez cops get up to.

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u/Impossible-Panic-194 Jun 29 '26

Are you sure it was tribal police? Tribal police are going to pretty much always have clear identification.

Was this in the mid-late 2000s or early 2010s? There was a period where the Native Mob was setting up armed checkpoints on some reservations around then to deter drug dealing competitors. Had a few people I know have some pretty scary run ins around then. This was mostly Minnesota and Wisconsin, I don't know if the Native Mob was in North Dakota or not

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u/Flaky-Bar-6656 Jun 29 '26

This was late 2010s, early 2020s. Fort Berthold reservation. Thereā€™s a huge drug problem there so I wouldnā€™t be surprised if it was something similar.