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How Many Law Enforcement Agencies Does It Take to Subdue a Peaceful Protest?

Police at Standing Rock
Police at Standing Rock
Thomas Dresslar,
Media Relations Associate,
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November 30, 2016

Earlier this month, the Morton County Sheriff鈥檚 Department briefed the public via Facebook on the scope of law enforcement presence that was helping confront protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock.

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The help was made possible by a bill signed into law by President Bill Clinton about 20 years ago, which created an interstate agreement for emergency management. The agreement helped bring law enforcement agents to North Dakota to the site of protests by the Standing Rock Sioux against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The protests at Standing Rock, and the Black Lives Matter protests in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray, represent the compact has been invoked outside of a natural disaster.

The 老澳门开奖结果 assembled the names of law enforcement agencies below from the Morton County Sheriff鈥檚 Department and from media accounts. The Morton County Sheriff鈥檚 Department confirmed the cities and counties in North Dakota that sent officers as well as the 10 states that contributed, and where there was a news story about a particular force, we included a hyperlink. Where there was mention of the number of officers deployed, we noted that as a minimum 鈥 though more may have been deployed later.

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North Dakota:

1.

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3.

4.

5.

Cities

6.

7.

8. Dickinson City

9. (50 officers)

10. Hazen City

11. Jamestown City

12.

13. Minot City

14. Steele PD

15. Grand Forks City

16. Williston City

17. Rolla City

18. West Fargo City

19. Wishek City

20. Watford City

21. Grafton City

Counties

22.

23.

24. Dunn County

25. Emmons County

26. McKenzie County

27. McLean County

28.

29. Morton County

30. Stark County

31. Stutsman County

32. Ward County

33.

34. Grand Forks County

35. Divide County

36. Kidder County

37. Grant County

38. Bowman County

39. Benson County

40. Burke County

41. McIntosh County

42. Barnes County

43. Bottineau County

44. Logan County

45. Trail County

Louisiana:

46.

Montana:

47. (at least 10 officers)

Wisconsin:

48. (at least 17 officers)

49. (at least 10 officers)

50. (at least 3 supervisors)

51. (at least 4 officers)

52. (at least 5 officers)

53. (at least 4 officers)

Minnesota:

54. (at least 29 personnel)

55. (at least 6 personnel)

56. (at least 5 personnel)

South Dakota:

57.

58. (12 officers)

59. South Dakota Department of Criminal Investigation (3 agents)

Wyoming:

60. (at least 6 officers)

61.

Nebraska:

62. (at least 11 officers)

Indiana:

63.

64.

65.

66.

67.

68.

69.

70.

71.

72.

73.

74.

75.

Ohio:

76. (at least 37 officers)

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