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R-J wins award from ACLU for series on police shootings
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada has chosen the Las Vegas Review-Journal as its latest Emilie Wanderer Civil Libertarian of the Year award winner for its series on police shootings.
The five-day series, titled "Deadly Force: When Las Vegas Police Shoot, and Kill," highlighted the Metropolitan Police Department's reluctance to hold officers accountable for mistakes and unwillingness to adopt policies to protect its officers and the public. Las Vegas police had 12 fatal shootings last year, a record for one year for the department.
"This project is simply unprecedented in Nevada and is nationally outstanding," ACLU Executive Director Dane Claussen said in a news release Friday announcing the award. "The Review-Journal's series was not only highly informative and timely for the public and local government officials, but was of tremendous help to the ACLU of Nevada as it prepared its petition to the U.S. Department of Justice requesting a patterns/practices investigation of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department."
The Justice Department's civil rights division declined to open a patterns-and-practices investigation, but another arm of the federal agency, Community Oriented Policing Services, has agreed to conduct an independent review of the Police Department's use of deadly force.
The award will be presented to the Review-Journal on April 27 at the ACLU's 10th annual Celebration of Civil Liberties at the Barrymore restaurant in the Royal Resort hotel.
"The ACLU of Nevada does not always agree with the Review-Journal's positions on every civil rights and civil liberties issue, but the Review-Journal's extensive, thoughtful, and continuing attention to the federal and state constitutions is highly unusual among U.S. metropolitan daily newspapers," said Claussen, a former newspaper editor and reporter.
Also Friday, the Review-Journal won an award of excellence for page design in the Society of News Design's 33rd annual international competition, which featured more than 10,000 entries from newspapers and magazines in 39 countries.
Ched Whitney, the Review-Journal's art director, photographer John Locher and director of photography Mark Damon were recognized for a Dec. 18 feature story on issues surrounding the management of Nevada's wild horse population.
"Both the deadly force and wild horses projects were some of the best work done by the Review-Journal in 2011," Editor Michael Hengel said. "Both examined significant issues, and it's gratifying that the reporters, editors, photographers and designers who worked so hard on those stories are being honored by such respected organizations. We are very thankful for the recognition."
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JG wrote on February 18, 2012 08:13 AM: HarryK: you are so correct. I was quoted on my feelings in this series. When I contacted the author to find out how he could possibly know my feelings when he never talked to me personally his answer was "Well that is what I was told How many other "facts" in this series are questionable????? Just a thought. I am sure the statistic were accurate but it seems the other things in the articles were wrong.
awesome series and award definitely deserved! good work review journal!
TL.Gzz I don't know what kind of daddy/cop issues you have but sweetheart sometimes it isn't about the cops, not everything is. Sometimes it is simply about a bad extremist organization, called the ACLU, and the newspaper that supports them.
The five-day series should have been titled, "The police are really whack, now pass me that blunt".
This is not a LEFT, RIGHT, BLACK, WHITE issue. This is a WE THE PEOPLE issue. Congrats to LVRJ for their award. They deserve INTERNATIONAL recognition for this report. Those who denounce the report are either cops or cop-lovers. YOU are part of the problem. What's the problem? Our ever-increasing, hostile, immoral police state.
@LAK9NV, wait until they show up at YOUR house. Don't say it can't happen. It can. Did you ever watch the movie" An Innocent Man"?
@3Tom....Here's a better idea. Instead of beating our heads against a wall trying to get rid of the Constitution, let's just make things a lot easier on ourselves and just buy a couple one-way ticket to Tehran. But I have a few things i need to take care of first. So, why don't you go on ahead and when you get things set up send me a e-mail and i'll head on over. That is if you haven't been arrested and executed in the public square for sending an e-mail to a dirty American, you know that nasty side effect of not having a Bill of Rights.
Glad you're on board bghs.1986! Now we also have to figure out a way to get the RJ to go with them!
@3tom...I hear you. What are they thinking defending that darn Constitution. I don't know what our forefathers were thinking drafting such an idiotic document. I mean Iran and North Korea are doing just fine with any old 'constitution.' Ask the dictators in charge of those nations, the people their just love life without having to deal with crazy ideas like a 'Bill of Rights' with its Due Process and Freedom of Speech<? That's just asking for trouble
The ACLU is an extremist organization, can’t we run them out of town?