Miscommunication. The cops took the report as being accurate (is my guess) rather than investigating the situation for themselves. A panic ensued. An innocent man was murdered. The only conspiracy may have happened after the fact.
Very poor leadership and totally inappropriate training.
“The only conspiracy may have happened after the fact.”
Which, if people have paid attention to the history of incidents in Las Vegas Metro PD, isn’t a stretch of the imagination.... because such tampering and cover-ups have happened in the past. They’ve made large payments in and out of court as a result.
And yet, the pattern of behavior continues... and so do the cash settlements. The taxpayers of Vegas, who are already in a financial hole, are justifiably pissed off about the pattern of payments for poor character and job performance by the PD.
Unlike some others on this thread who have general problems with LEO’s, I have a specific and historic issues with this department, who going back to the days when the NV CCW statute was first under debate in the Nevada Legislature, thought that they could a) write the laws (they can’t, legislators do that), b) when they didn’t get the language they wanted, they thought they could re-write the laws with their county/city policies, c) when it was explained to them by the legislature again that what the LVPD wanted was not supported by the law, they continued to flaunt the law.
To this day, Vegas cops hate CCW carriers.
People who have never visited Las Vegas should know that while every other Nevada county’s LEO’s are supportive of CCW’s, Las Vegas is NOT, and unless you’ve got a lawyer on speed dial, if there is an incident, you’re likely to have problems. It is an institutional issue with them, going back to the days when the LEO’s were mobbed up (along with the rest of Las Vegas), and the mob assumed anyone packing a gun was a troublemaker, to be dealt with their way. Las Vegas government and LEO’s in general have an attitude problem. A big one. And that attitude problem goes like this:
“The rules don’t apply to us.”
That applies from Harry Reid on down to the beat cops in Vegas.