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By Jackie Valley (contact) 
Published Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 | 12:42 p.m.
Updated Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 | 6:17 p.m.
Metro Police did not regularly analyze its use-of-force incidents, resulting in inadequacies in officer training and overall accountability, according to a 154-page report released Thursday morning by the Justice Department. The report, eight months in the making by Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office, includes 35 findings and 40 subsequent recommendations, which Justice Department officials say will reduce officer-involved shootings — if Metro institutes those recommendations. Metro volunteered to undergo the review by the COPS Office on the heels of a Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative series into officer-involved shootings published in 2011. The Justice Department’s report findings were released ...
So where can we read the report for ourselves so we don't need to rely on spin from Sheriff Doug?
Nothing will change. Except maybe switching to fully automatic weapons for traffic officers.
I'd like to see this report, and figures, especially in comparison to other metropolitan areas.
I am constantly amazed that the people continue to re-elect Sheriff Gillespie - he has had multiple incidents during his administration that are appalling - the Derek Colling assault of a gentleman video taping from his own driveway (can be found on youtube), Office Manor doing 109 mph on surface streets with no light or sirens, t-bones a car and metro initially tries to blame the other guy, the guy jay walking and assaulted on the strip (also can be found on youtube), the Costco shooting, and countless other events. These are just those in public eye. I had a friend's wife get rear ended by Metro and they tried to shift blame on her, a friend get arrested for an old warrant and have $80 stolen from the officers at county and I have personally seen Metro racing around surface streets breaking traffic laws while not going to a call. Metro scares me! And it needs change!
@dem for life. William Mosher is ex military. He has two fatal OIS.
The cop haters are out in force. I suspect it's because they got a traffic ticket or two and blame the cop for it. I have one suggestion for the "Justice" Department A-holes! Go back to the pig sty known as Washington, D.C. As far as I am concerned, when the cops zap felons with records as long as my arm, they do us all a tremendous service. They not only get rid of an anti-social individual, but they relieve taxpayers of the burden of having to pay for lawyers, judges, juries, psychiatrists, food, lodging and any medical needs the creepola would have been given in the future. Go, Metro! You rock!
Anything in that report, about firing police officers.
Mr. Fink: Maybe if the police helped more people than they bully, beat or shoot, folks would have a very different attitude toward S.NV police forces. When law breakers actually reach the courts the sentence for most situations in which the police find themselves involved IS NOT DEATH.