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Data from Las Vegas police shows there were 57 percent fewer recruits last year compared with 2019, and many other local police departments showed a similar trend.
The Nevada Legislature is considering a bill that would require any police officer who interacts with the public to be equipped with a body camera.
Lawrence Artl III, 37, was booked on felony counts of a school employee engaging in sexual conduct with a pupil 16 or older and attempting to prevent a witness from testifying.
Metropolitan Police Department Detective Robert Sigal, the only detective in the department’s animal cruelty unit, investigates about 100 cases of felony animal abuse across the valley.
Former state lawmaker Steven Brooks was arrested this month when police found a gun in his house after a fight among families Easter Sunday that led to gunfire, records show.
The Citizen Review Board either dismissed complaints or sided with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police internal affairs in most cases the past three years, records show.
In a wide-ranging interview with the Review-Journal, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo called the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis a “watershed moment” for policing in America.
The Metropolitan Police Department saw a 37 percent increase in retirements in 2020, but the agency and the officers union said the rise isn’t linked to the ongoing push for police reforms.
In Southern Nevada, authorities are aware of the broadening spectrum of extremism, fueled in part by months of COVID-19 isolation and online venting.
The Metropolitan Police Department assisted the FBI on Thursday in two arrests related to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
A Las Vegas mail carrier is among a handful of people charged in an ongoing effort to crack down on fraudulent unemployment claims filed with Nevada’s employment agency.
Las Vegas police agreed to settle a lawsuit that stemmed from the May 2017 death of Tashii Brown. Brown died after an encounter with an officer.
By Thursday morning, the county had received 8,901 illegal fireworks complaints on its ISpyFireworks.com website. At this time last year, the county had received 1,695 complaints.
Las Vegas police are investigating a break-in that happened sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning at the Clark County Republican Party headquarters.