Did you ever notice that when government decides to take action to "help" people that the people helped are harmed. Like when people lose money in the stock market because government is exposing risks of losses which cause them. Or when drug laws are passed that punish the people they were supposed to help.

Same in some ways with online poker. By taking away any threat of government oversight or investigation by outlawing internet poker sites allegedly millions of dollars have been gained by poker cheats in gaming sites now regulated by members of a small Native American tribe in Canada. The regulators have little gaming experience and are payed directly by the gaming companies they regulate.

The Absolute Poker Scandal was denied and belittled by the inexperienced regulators until the evidence was irrefutable. Millions of dollars were lost as cheats used a program which allowed them to see their opponts hole card in Texas Hold em was used for 18 months on Absolute and a sister site. With a similar scandal looming involving online poker giant Full Tilt Poker, isn't it time for our leaders to repeal the inane ban on internet gambling so that U.S. players can get a fair deal on gambling sites. It is hard to win at a fair sight and probably impossible if high tech cheats are skimming the pool of wagers for millions of dollars. And did I mention how much money could be collected by government if they taxed the profits of poker sites?

By golly I think he has got it! Yes that is exactly what we should do, some or all of the solutions you mentioned. If all the police have to do is investigate and arrest adults voluntarily involved in "victimless" crimes or stand around talking at crime scenes let's have a layoff at Metro. If Nevada DOT can't do any better than the fiasco down MLK Blvd. we can save some money there by hiring less people who are competant to get the work done. I am no expert on if the fire department is overstaffed but if it is let's get rid of the firemen who told county government to take a hike when asked to give up a portion of their FUTURE RAISE to help balance the budget. I never thought about it but school four days a week is a great idea if we can make sure the kids have the opportunity to get a good education instead of what they get now. Maybe we could save enough to give teachers a raise so they can stop their incessant whining about being underpaid while the parents of their students face financial crisis. All day Kindergarten? Maybe we shouldn't continue academic experimentation during a hard economy. Your last suggestion was to close UNLV all together, Would that mean we would no longer have to listen to a certain Mr. Rogers AND help balance the budget?
Priceless!

Las Vegas needs a new minor league baseball facility, but how to pay for it? Find a developer who would put a Casino in the basement, luxury condos above and below the grandstands and retail shopping by the parking areas. That way it should only cost the city 30 or 40 million dollars! It is a NO-BRAINER.
Ask Mayor Goodman.

It was obvious from the beginning that the outcome of the inquest was already determined. The jurists had knowledge of the witnesses and asked questions that were meant to discredit the testimony. The District attorney never pressed the issues concerning wrongdoing by the officers. Just because the policy of HPD is to kill anyone with a dangerous (steak knife?) weapon doesn't automatically make it right or legal. Hopefully the people of Henderson will demand a new head of their police department, one that doesn't train his men and women to be cold blooded killers. And as residents and tax payers of Clark Couny we need to take the inquests out of the hands of the proven one sided coroners and district attorney offices'.

If this had been a preliminary hearing in front of a district court judge there would have been plenty of evidence to hold this case over for a jury trial. This flawed system only looks for reasons to permit officers to escape responsabilty for their actions. We can only hope that the FBI or a Grand Jury will take a look at this travesty of justice.

If the HPD doesn't find anything wrong with what happened in this case what in the world would be wrong? Could the answer be nothing? Is the HPD just a rogue paramilitary organization that is only responsible for the protection of its officers? The fine people of Henderson deserve a better department for the money they are paying, one that protects and serves the citizens and not just the force. And the members of HPD who want to do their job in the right way for the right reasons desrve a better boss. They understand that failure to comply immeadiatley to the orders of one of Henderson's finest is not a capital crime with execution to be carried out at the scene.

And I know that you have not asked for my advice Office Harrison so I am breaking my own rule of never giving unwanted advice, BUT, I have been in high pressure situations many times, often at the risk of life and limb and seen how people have reacted. If this scared you so badly that your best judgement led to this outcome you should get out of the force now! You are not cut out for for work in pressure situations. You are not going to be happy with your career and more people will probably get hurt needlessly.

Thank you Alexandra and The Sun for bringing these issues to the public so that perhaps some changes can be implemented before more injuries or deaths occur.

As the indusrial revolution caused a huge building boom over a hundred years ago structural steel erection was an incredibly dangerous business. One book said that the average lifespan for an Ironworker was only seven years. The emergence of the Ironworkers Union was in no small part brought on by workers wanting self determination on safety issues.

Statistics are hard to come by from the first half of the last century but the trade did become a lot safer as Ironworkers made and enforced safety practices concerning their work. After WWII, Dept. of Labor statistics for work related deaths showed a steady decrease in Ironworker fatalities for next 50 years. older Ironworkers with a lifetimeof experience taught the younger members about hazards and safe procedures. Then in the mid 1990's fatalities again began to rise nationwide per hour worked.
As Insurance companies started demanding onsite
company(not Union)safety personell the safety decisions were taken out of the hands of the people who had done so much good and given to people that had little or no working knowledge of the trade. With smugness born of ignorance these company safety "experts" have made decision after decision that have caused many deaths and injuries. The finding of the company safety person after an accident is invariably that the worker was not following safety procedure when he was injured. But the truth is as long as safety procedures are in the hands of these incompetant and unqualified people accidents will continue to rise. There is still time for Ironworkers and OSHA to squash the petty tyrants that masquerade as being for safer jobs while feeding their egos and wallets at the expense of the blood and misery of working men and women.

Remember when people used to say "There is no such thing as a stupid question?" There are such things as stupid questions and let me give two examples. When someone who you know or work with pretends they need to ask you something they already know the answer to so that they can advance some agenda, that is a stupid question.
Likewise, when a very educated man who has strong opinons pretnds to ask questions so that he can write commentary and espouse those opinions that is a stupid question. But I have a question, If the writer uses this tired old trick to try to gain attention to his opinions is the question stupid or the writer?

This was indeed a horrible event, I can't say for sure what happened because I wasn't a first hand observant but it seems to me that the police might have reason to lie to protect their own but why would bystanders with nothing to gain conspire to make false accusations against police?

darthbry: You seem so angry and paranoid about the nature of people. Not everyone that is not a cop is a drug dealer or spousal abuser or wannabe gangster. But if you are in law enforcement and not some mall cop or mobile security then in a way your hostility is understandable, there is a school of thought in police training that instills a us verse them mentality into your training. Truth is that most people no matter what their politics don't hate or want to harm cops. There should have been some other way to subdue or calm the lady before deadly force was used. I don't have the training that Henderson police have and I have to believe that if I have a 3 or 4 to 1 advantage with billy clubs, pepper spray, tasers kevlar and old fashioned common sense this lady does not have to die in front of her family, Knife or no knife. A few officers out of many seem to want to use deadly force as soon as it is allowable and not when it is appropriate. That's wrong, and good citizens are not anti law enforcement when they say so.