alan berk wrote on September 25, 2007 07:39 PM: it`s up to us to say enough is enough

either live like a civlized person or we arwe going to put you away for a long time!

let`s start making examples of these jerks!

Herb wrote on September 25, 2007 05:09 PM: We are too soft on crime in this city. We need to crack down on the methheads and make their lives a living hell. We need to start building a whole lot more jails.

I work at night and used to shop at the supermarket at Midnight. Now most of the stores close at night because of all the robberies. I wish we could instantly kill all armed robbers or at least chop off their arms. They are human scum and there is no reason for them to exist. If we killed and tortured robbers, stores would still be open at Midnight like they should in this 24 hour town.

You might think my views are too extreme. Wrong, it's the criminals themselves who are extreme and that entire element must be eliminated.

JH wrote on September 25, 2007 04:29 PM: MORE POLICE!! They are stumbling all over one another. There are so many of them that they send half a dozen squad cars to do the job one could handle. Come on people. Wake up. We just need commanders that know how to utilize manpower.

looser wrote on September 25, 2007 04:22 PM: looser

Brendan Perez wrote on September 25, 2007 03:21 PM: Many of the robberies, shootings, and fights on the Strip and elsewhere have involved people over 18 who are exempt from the curfew and Metro's unique enforcement of it.

If the police have the resources to stop people for nothing more than walking, taking up to 90 minutes to cite them, or waiting 90 more minutes for their parents to show up, they have more than enough resources to patrol the whole area and deal with anyone who wants to rob, fight, or shoot.

You can't catch purse snatchers, robbers, fighters, and other violent criminals if you're standing outside Walgreen's and CVS stopping people walking by just because they are/appear to be under 18.

If crime prevention were truly the goal, the police would patrol the whole area for actual criminals and not just stand their with a net catching extremely high proportions of people who've done nothing wrong.

Concerned wrote on September 25, 2007 01:46 PM: Where are all the new cops we were supposed to get????? Perhaps a greater police presence would help?

Michael Ray Thompson wrote on September 25, 2007 01:18 PM: Wow, I moved to Las Vegas from Texas to suppposedly get away from the hustle and bustle of the big city. Welcome to reality, Michael. Las Vegas is as bad or worse that Houston. Metro seems to be so concerned about busting prostitutes and vagrants. Hey Metro, let's get serious about serious crime and quit wasting so much time pursuing such trivial stuff.

packe wrote on September 25, 2007 12:37 PM: Brendan, since your just a fountain of police knowledge, you should test and become a metro officer, that is if you qualify. Its the punk kids on the strip who are involved in fights, robberies and shootings. Also, the bond issue to hire more officers is in full effect, but since a metro badge isn't given to just anyone, it takes upwards of a year from application to completion of field training.

Sheriff Gillespie is doing a great job. Mark, I think your real name is Airola...Dont be hater!

Brendan Perez wrote on September 25, 2007 10:54 AM: What happened to all the police that we were supposed to get for that sales tax increase?

Oh right, they were most likely put on traffic detail.

Instead of hiring/training many more detectives to clear the backlog, which would get many repeat criminals off the street, we get more motorcycles and unmarked units to hassle you as you do 35 in a desolate 25 zone. Coincidentally, the latter brings in far more revenue than the former.

I'd much rather have speeders and lane weavers than rapists, murderers, burglars, and car thieves on the streets.

Perhaps the police can shift some resources from their strip curfew patrols and direct them towards patrolling and stopping all sorts of (usually adult committed) real crime in the surrounding. Several times I've seen 4 or 5 officers standing around taking upwards of 90 minutes to cite 3 or 4 young people for the crime of walking down the strip after 9pm. At various times throughout the year, clusters of 30-40 police in tan uniforms, green (gang unit? SWAT?) uniforms, horeseback, etc can be seen on the South end of the strip stopping anyone who appears to be under 18.

Given that people under 18 commit only a fraction of overall crime and only a fraction of those crimes at night, does it make sense to commit such a large amount of resources to stop literally a fraction of a fraction of crime?

If the police have the resources to stop, question, cite, and either detain until picked up or release, young people, they have the resources to patrol the whole area and stop real crime, committed the young AND the old.

Mark wrote on September 25, 2007 10:31 AM: Sheriff Gillespie is an enemy of freedom.

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