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Weapons

Axon Announces First 2 Agencies to Purchase New TASER 7

Axon announced the Fort Worth (TX) Police Department and the Nevada Highway Patrol as the first agencies to equip officers with Axon's new TASER 7 weapon.

October 11, 2018

Patrol

FEMA Releases Report on Response to Las Vegas Concert Massacre

The 61-page report also described the response to the attack — which left 58 concertgoers dead and more than 800 people injured — as “efficient” and “coordinated,” crediting the counter-terrorism training of Las Vegas police.

August 29, 2018

Special Units

Standoff with Gunman in Las Vegas Complicated by Man Live Streaming Incident

For roughly 70 minutes Saturday morning, the Facebook user stood a few yards from officers as they dealt with an erratic and taunt-flinging Roosevelt Brown, who’d been accused of firing a gun at a family member’s apartment.

August 29, 2018

Patrol

Video: Nevada Police Exchange Gunfire with Fleeing Vehicle in Pursuit

Las Vegas Metro Police released body camera footage of a police pursuit of two suspects who allegedly fled after a July 11 traffic stop conducted by cops investigating the murder of a man near a car wash.

July 17, 2018

Patrol

Video: Las Vegas Officer Under Investigation for Response to Concert Shooting

The investigation into Cordell Hendrex, and the rest of the city’s police department, comes as Las Vegas prepares to release its ninth batch of footage and records related to the shooting, which left 58 dead and hundreds injured.

July 4, 2018

Training

VirTra's Training Simulators Chosen by 3 of Largest U.S. LE Departments

The Dallas Police Department, the San Francisco Police Department, and the Southern Desert Regional Police Academy (SDRPA) in Las Vegas have selected VirTra's V-300 use of force, de-escalation, and active shooter training simulator.

June 27, 2018

Patrol

Axon Announces 2018 RISE Award Winners

In today's RISE award ceremony at the Accelerate user conference, Axon recognized seven members of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) for the valor they exemplified during the October 1, 2017 Mandalay Bay shooting.

June 5, 2018

Patrol

Nevada Troopers Find Wrecked $300,000 Sports Car in Desert

The Nevada Highway Patrol found the totaled McLaren 720 about 70 yards off a road near Lake Mead last week, with damage suggesting that it had rolled at least once as it just missed falling down a ravine.

May 15, 2018

Patrol

Video: Nevada Boy Raises Money for Fallen Officers, Gets Station Tour

A 5-year-old boy was treated to a very exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour at a Henderson, NV, police substation after his lemonade stand raised more than $400 for fallen officers.

April 16, 2018

Patrol

Video: Las Vegas Gunman Showed "True Mark of a Sociopath," Says Retired Officer

Newly released surveillance video shows Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock in the days before he opened fire from his Mandalay Bay hotel room, killing 58 people. The hotel said the images show that Paddock gave no outward indications of the massacre he was planning to carry out.

March 23, 2018

Patrol

Las Vegas Detective Honored for Actions During Concert Shooting

On October 1, Golgart rushed to help the wounded, piling people into the back of his truck and driving them to the hospital. While doing so, he received a call from his daughter saying she had been shot. Like any father he wanted to go to her, but he decided to continue driving toward the hospital with the wounded.

March 8, 2018

Patrol

Vegas Concert Shooter had Child Porn on Computer, FBI Investigating Person of Interest

Lombardo said the unnamed person of interest the FBI is looking into is not Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, and he reiterated that authorities believe Paddock was a lone shooter.

January 19, 2018