The man who could decide the future of Southern Nevada’s water supply is not a politician or top-level administrator.
He wasn’t appointed by the governor. He isn’t even a department head, and his job title barely hints at what he’s paid to do.
Missing from the debate over shootings by police in the Las Vegas Valley has been a comprehensive understanding of how, when, and why these incidents happen. That changes today. In the second installment in a five-day series, the Review-Journal provides an unprecedented analysis of officer-involved shootings since 1990 in Clark County, focusing on 310 incidents involving the Metropolitan Police Department.
Las Vegas police were involved in 17 shootings in 2003. Ten subjects were black, an unusually high number even for a department that historically shoots a disproportionate number of minorities. None of the officers were black.
Want detailed information on how many people were shot by police in the United States last year? That’s not so easy to find.
The Metropolitan Police Department uses deadly force at a higher rate than many other urban police agencies, according to a Review-Journal analysis
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