The Metropolitan Police Department started the new year by touting a 0.9 percent drop in violent crime between 2016 and 2017.
Yet that reported dip in crime is insignificant, several criminologists told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. And it charts the change between only two years, which is not considered a reliable trend.
A closer look at Metro’s homicide numbers also reveals a handful of discrepancies and a glaring — albeit admitted — omission: the 58 people killed in the Las Vegas mass shooting.
Two people were killed Sunday in a two-car crash in the western Las Vegas Valley.
The cars collided on Rainbow Boulevard, just south of Westcliff Drive.
One of the cars jumped a curb and hit the side of Silver State Schools Credit Union.
The Las Vegas valley will get another chance at snow.
A storm system Tuesday morning will bring a 40 percent chance of showers and light snowfall particularly in the western side of the valley.
Tuesday’s high is expected to be 54 degrees.
