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Jeff Taylor | 3.19.2004 9:19 AM

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Hey, is too late to put this guy in charge of finding Osama? If nothing else Conrad Malsom should get the March paychecks of a couple dozen law enforcement officers who were too busy doing something -- watching hoops? -- to actually go out and pick up the Ohio sniper.

A disgrace.

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  1. Ruthless   22 years ago

    For years politicians have pandered for more cops, more cops.
    The war on drugs is the cops' lobbyist for more cops.
    Add it together and we have so many cops that they all assume that one of their associates will handle it.

  2. Ron Hardin   22 years ago

    Intrasystem goals come first.

  3. LVPD   22 years ago

    It's not really our concern, since he wasn't suspected of shooting anyone in Vegas. Can you really expect us to perform Ohio's law enforcement duties, too? If so, then we need more cops.

    -LVPD

  4. Shawn Smith   22 years ago

    Metro (The Las Vegas Metropoliton Police Department) is a group I would just prefer to not deal with at all. I'm not surprised Conrad had this much trouble.

    There hasn't been an LVPD since the early 70's, but they were people you REALLY did NOT want to have a problem with.

  5. jc   22 years ago

    I'm surprised they didn't arrest Malsom for stalking.

  6. Brendan Perez   22 years ago

    The Sherrif of Clark County is the head of the LVMPD. The LVPD and CC Sherrif were consolidated into the LVMPD sometime in the 1970s(?). Metro's jurisdiction is unincorporated Clark County and the City of Las Vegas.
    I think the police chief is/was the undersherrif.

    We have a non-emergency number-311 that this guy also called and was given the same kind of runaround. I guess he could have called the 7-digit non-emergency numbers which 2 of which AFAIK are (702)229-3111 and (702)795-3111.

  7. cj   22 years ago

    After the first two attempts, he should have called the local sheriff's dept.

    Obviously, the "911 procedure book" isn't up to handling "tips." One could argue that they should be. One could also argue that they are there to respond to emergencies, and expanding their role to slog through "tips" would be detrimental to their mission of emergency response.

    If at first you don't succeed, call your local sheriff. Or the non-911 for local police. Or your local news station.

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