When a Las Vegas police officer shoots and kills someone, the death sparks a clear review process: from providing information to the public to evaluating whether policies should be changed and whether an officer should be charged for his or her role in the fatality.
Offices for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department are seen on July 16, 2022. The department was involved in at least eight non-shooting deaths during police encounters from 2012-2021, according to an investigation by The Associated Press and the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism. Despite extensive police use-of-force data on its website, the department does not publicly report on the number of in-custody, non-shooting deaths.
“We wanted to improve upon our training, and we wanted to eliminate and reduce the number of officer-involved shootings,” said James LaRochelle, then-deputy chief of the Las Vegas department’s investigative services division. He has since retired.How non-shooting deaths involving police slip through the cracks in Las VegasBy the end of 2012, the number of shootings by Las Vegas police dropped 37% from the previous year, according to a Justice Department assessment.
LaRochelle said the Critical Incident Review Team will “look at policy against an officer’s performance a hundred times” in any given year to determine whether changes are needed. The prosecutor’s office conducts a legal review of all police shootings in order to determine whether an officer’s conduct was legally justified. But the agency never issued opinions on nearly half of the non-shooting death cases the Howard Center identified in Las Vegas as part of
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