Metro officer charged with domestic battery was arrested on similar charges in 2011

http://www.reviewjournal.com ^ | January 13, 2016 - 5:30pm | By Rachel Crosby

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The Metropolitan Police officer who was arrested Monday on domestic battery charges was arrested four years before on similar charges, but that case was dismissed, the Clark County district attorney's office confirmed Wednesday.

James Burt, 41, was taken into custody Monday on suspicion of domestic battery by strangulation and kidnapping involving his girlfriend, an arrest report shows. In 2011, he was arrested on two counts of domestic battery, coercion with force and kidnapping involving his then-wife. They divorced about a year later.

That first case was dismissed less than six weeks after he was arrested.

"What it looks like on the court record is it was almost like an agreement," said Audrie Locke, a district attorney spokeswoman. Between the day he was taken into custody and the day the case was dropped, he performed 100 hours of community service and completed counseling.

[SkyDancer]

But yet gets to keep his gun(s)?

[Mastador1]

Any non specially trained professional law enforcement type would have been stripped of his right to possess a firearm the first time he was arrested for domestic violence.

[vette6387]

“Any non specially trained professional law enforcement type would have been stripped of his right to possess a firearm the first time he was arrested for domestic violence. “

And Las Vegas Metro has had a sorry record of violent “officers.” Like most PD’s, it’s always about “our brother officers,” and to hell with the citizens

[Mastador1]

And Las Vegas Metro has had a sorry record of violent “officers.” Like most PD’s, it’s always about “our brother officers,” and to hell with the citizens

You know being a cop is not an easy job, I once considered it and decided that I didn't have the temperament, sad that so many others made a poor choice. I had a friend that was LAPD during the riots, His picture in riot gear was front page of the Times, occasionally I would be invited to a party attended by a good number of his fellow officers and the amount of drinking was flat out crazy! The problem however is that their drinking was an everyday coping mechanism, you have to wonder what the unreported percentage of alcoholism is.