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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Sgt. Bill Blake gave his anti-gang presentation to American Indian communities so many times, he says, that his daughter knew it by heart. Yet it wasn't enough: "Dad, you have to do more," he recalls her saying.
Nearly four years later, 20-year-old Erica Rae Blake was dead — shot in the head at a party on a Wisconsin reservation. Her death was ruled an accident, but memory is driving Blake to work even harder to fight violence on reservations.
Blake set out to improve cooperation between tribal police, federal and local law enforcement, but quickly found a big obstacle: Nobody tracks hard data on crime occurring on tribal lands.
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