The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is a combined city and county law enforcement agency for the City of Las Vegas and Clark County,Nevada,United States. It is headed by the Sheriff of Clark County,who is publicly elected every four years. The sheriff is the only elected head law enforcement officer within the county,and,as such,the department is not under the direct control of its jurisdictional cities,Clark County,or the State of Nevada.
Joseph Michael Lombardo is an American politician and former law enforcement officer serving since 2023 as the 31st governor of Nevada. A member of the Republican Party,he was the 17th sheriff of Clark County from 2015 to 2023,capping a 34-year career in law enforcement.
Rancho High School is a high school in North Las Vegas,Nevada,within the Clark County School District.
Catherine Marie Cortez Masto is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Nevada,a seat she has held since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,Cortez Masto served as the 32nd attorney general of Nevada from 2007 to 2015.
The 2010 United States Senate election in Nevada took place on November 2,2010. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator and Majority Leader Harry Reid won re-election to a fifth and final term.
Suzanne "Sue" Pluskoski Lowden is the former Chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party and a former Nevada state senator. Lowden is a former businesswoman,television news anchor and kindergarten teacher. Lowden was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2010 United States Senate election in Nevada and the 2014 Nevada Lt. Governor election.
The Sheriff of Clark County,officially The Sheriff of the County of Clark,is the chief law enforcement officer of Clark County,Nevada. The Sheriff heads the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department,is elected by the citizens of Clark County,and is an independent agency with joint policing of the City of Las Vegas and of unincorporated Clark County. The sheriff is the only elected head law enforcement officer within the city and county,and,as such,is not under the direct control of the city,county,state,or federal government.
This list contains incidents of misconduct that have resulted in a conviction,confession,plea bargain or some sort of administrative disciplinary action taken against a member of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Excluded are allegations and lawsuits that have not been adjudicated.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Nevada was held November 8,2016 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Nevada,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The state primary election was held June 14,2016.
Stephen F. Sisolak is an American businessman and politician who served as the 30th governor of Nevada from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,he served on the Clark County Commission from 2009 to 2019 and on the Nevada Board of Regents from 1999 to 2008. Sisolak is the only Democrat in the 21st century to serve as or be elected Governor of Nevada.
Michele Ann Fiore is an American Republican politician who served as a justice of the peace for Nye County from her appointment to the position by the Nye County Commission in December 2022 until her suspension in July 2024 after a grand jury indicted her on seven federal counts,six for wire fraud and one conspiracy charge. She was convicted on all seven counts on October 3,2024.
Debra Gauthier is a former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant who chronicled in a book her 21-year police career as a woman on a predominantly male police force.
The 2014 Bundy standoff was an armed confrontation between supporters of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and law enforcement following a 21-year legal dispute in which the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) obtained court orders directing Bundy to pay over $1 million in withheld grazing fees for Bundy's use of federally owned land adjacent to Bundy's ranch in southeastern Nevada.
Cliven D. Bundy is an American cattle rancher known for his role in the 2014 Bundy standoff. Bundy has advocated a philosophy opposed to what he views as federal government overreach. He is the father of Ammon Bundy,who in 2016 also led another armed standoff against the government,the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.
The 2014 Las Vegas shootings occurred on June 8,2014,when a married couple,Jerad and Amanda Miller,committed a shooting in northeastern Las Vegas,Nevada. Five people died,including the two shooters. The couple,who espoused extreme anti-government views,first killed two Las Vegas police officers at a restaurant before fleeing into a Walmart,where they killed an intervening armed civilian named Joseph Wilcox. The couple died after engaging responding officers in a shootout in Walmart;police shot and killed Jerad,while Amanda committed suicide after being wounded.
The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada were held on November 8,2016,to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state of Nevada,one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries took place on June 14.
The 2018 Nevada gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next governor of Nevada. Incumbent Republican governor Brian Sandoval was ineligible to run for re-election due to the absolute two-term limit established by the Nevada Constitution. Nevada is one of eight U.S. states that prohibits its governors or any other state and territorial executive branch officials from serving more than two terms,even if they are nonconsecutive.
On October 1,2017,a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. He fired more than 1,000 rounds,killing 60 people and wounding at least 413. The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to approximately 867. About an hour later,he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The motive for the shooting is officially undetermined.
The 2022 Nevada gubernatorial election took place on November 8,2022,to elect the governor of Nevada. Incumbent Democratic governor Steve Sisolak lost re-election to a second term,being defeated by Republican nominee,Clark County Sheriff,Joe Lombardo.
On October 26,2016,Sydney Land and her boyfriend Nehemiah Kauffman were shot and killed in her apartment in Las Vegas,Nevada. Their bodies were found the next day. Initially,Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced that they had no motive and no suspects in the case. Land's mother,Connie Land,asserted that Sydney had possibly been targeted for prostitution grooming by pimps.
