METRO SOURCES: LOMBARDO HIDING MS-13 GANG KILLINGS IN DESERT

March 25, 2018

Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer):

A source within @lvmpd telling me 6 dismembered bodies have been found in the desert area on East Lake Mead Blvd headed towards the lake! LVMPD has determined that MS13 is responsible. Source tells me @SheriffLombardo does NOT want this reported because of his re-election.

Reported January 20, 2018

Las Vegas Metro Police Department released false and misleading crime stats for 2017 claiming the murder rate dropped by 10%. In fact, by our count and that of other news outlets, there were 169 murders in 2017 not 141. It appears that until a murder charge is produced in a case, LVMPD is not counting a gangbanger shot in the head as a murder in their crime numbers. Metro has also disabled the “LVMPD homicide open cases” webpage on their site.

https://www.lvmpd.com/Pages/PageNotFoundError.aspx?requestUrl=http://www.lvmpd.com/Sections/Homicide/CasesByYear/19501969/tabid/327/Default.aspx

2018 is an election year and Sheriff Lombardo is up for re-election this year so the crime numbers matter. 2016 saw an 88% increase in homicides, the worst in 25 years. Now Sheriff Lombardo is claiming the murder rate dropped by 10%, down to 141 murders. Not only is Lombardo refusing to count some 28 murders, he is refusing to count the 58 murder victims from the Route 91 Concert in 2017.

In 2010 when Lombardo took over LVMPD, there were 106 murders according to Metro’s 2010 crime report. So if all the actual murders that occurred in 2017 are counted, including the route 91 shooting, there were 227 murders in 2017 under Sheriff Lombardo’s watch. That’s a 120% increase in the murder rate since Lombardo took over and that is not a number he can run on for reelection on.

Rob Lauer

Political Reporter

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