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CRIME AND SAFETY
  1. Critics note the use of automated enforcement across the country has been overused and opens up the potential for sensitive data to be collected and shared. (Photo: Hugh Jackson/Nevada Current)

    As NV lawmakers speed toward red light camera law, civil rights groups want to pump the brakes

    by Nevada Current

    | April 2, 2025

    By Michael Lyle, Nevada Current Amid growing numbers of traffic fatalities across Nevada, state lawmakers during interim meetings last year discussed whether red light and speed cameras or enhanced infrastructure would be the best way to improve road safety. A long-awaited bill, backed by state traffic safety officials and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, to […]
  2. FILE - In this April 29, 2018, file photo, a drone operator helps to retrieve a drone after photographing over Hart Island in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

    Is that a drone or a plane? Experts help explain the differences

    by Associated Press

    | December 18, 2024

    Is that a drone, a plane or a helicopter? Experts who study unmanned aircraft systems say it can be tough to tell from miles away, but there are clues.
  3. CRIME AND SAFETY - The Nevadan

    ¡Erick Rangel-Ibarra fue presuntamente arrestado en México!

    by Frank Alejandre

    | July 29, 2024

    Arrestaron en Querétaro, México, al hombre acusado de matar a Lesly Palacio, una joven nacida en Las Vegas. Un crimen que conmocionó a la comunidad local.
  4. During the first quarter of 2024, there’s also been a 13% drop in aggravated assault, according to the FBI. Murder and rape both decreased by about 26%. Robbery decreased by 18% and property crime declined 15%. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

    FBI figures show 15% drop in violent crime in 2024

    by Isabel Soisson

    | June 13, 2024

    During the first quarter of 2024, there’s also been a 13% drop in aggravated assault, according to the FBI. Murder and rape both decreased by about 26%. Robbery decreased by 18% and property crime declined 15%.
  5. CRIME AND SAFETY - The Nevadan

    VIDEO: Driver arrested after 2 troopers killed in Las Vegas freeway hit-and-run was impaired, police say

    by The Nevadan Staff

    | December 8, 2023

    Two Nevada state troopers in Las Vegas who had stopped to help a driver on the state’s busiest freeway were killed in the pre-dawn hours Thursday when an impaired driver struck them, authorities said. Las Vegas police Undersheriff Andrew Walsh said at a mid-day news conference that they had arrested the driver, who fled after […]
  6. CRIME AND SAFETY - The Nevadan

    VIDEO: Dramático testimonio de una madre que buscaba a su hija en UNLV

    by The Nevadan Staff

    | December 8, 2023

    @nevadannews Dramático testimonio de una madre que buscaba a su hija, luego de tiroteo en UNLV La estudiante de Artes, Carolyn Salvador Ávila fue una de las primeras 100 personas evacuadas del edificio aledaño a Frank and Estella Beam Hall (BEH), donde aconteció el tiroteo. Ella se encontraba allí para dar una conferencia en el […]