My friend Sydney Sweitzer provides an article from Quartz (December 2015) on the Las Vegas PD, and how this formerly troubled force is becoming one of the best in the nation, which seems relevant to this thread:
Now, five years later, the department is a model for police reform. Despite an uptick in violence directed toward Vegas cops, there were zero deadly force incidents involving unarmed suspects in 2014. The number of officer-involved shootings has dropped significantly as well.
In recent months, members of the NYPD, Baltimore police, as well as law enforcement agencies from Utah, Massachusetts, Albuquerque and even Australia have visited Metro to study its new training and accountability regimes.
It’s a good article, well worth reading. I wonder if the local PDs have taken a look at how LVPD is conducting training these days?
