Collaborative Reform Process: A Review of Officer-Involved Shootings in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

In late January 2012, the Office of Community Oriented Police Services (COPS Office) asked CNA to examine the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's (LVMPD) policies and practices as they relate to the use of force and officer-involved shootings (OISs). The goals of this review—and, subsequently those of the reforms identified by both LVMPD and CNA—were as follows:

• Reduce the number of shootings
• Reduce the number of persons killed as a result of OISs
• Transform LVMPD’s organization and culture as it relates to deadly force
• Enhance officer safety.

The focus of the COPS Office and CNA review centered on LVMPD deadly force issue areas involving:

1. policy and procedures;
2. training and tactics;
3. investigation and documentation; and
4. review.