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Hi, everyone. I'm Jen Ah with the Las

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Vegas Review Journal Today, I'm joined by our investigative

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reporter, Art Kane, to share with you an

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update on our flawed discipline investigation on misconduct by police

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officers and other public employees, The Review Journal found

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In the past five years, about 50 state and

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local employees were accused of misconduct, were fired but

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then got their jobs back through arbitration. They were

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reinstated even though supervisors deemed them unfit for the job

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. The employees include a Las Vegas police officer who

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wished for more terror attacks like the October one shooting

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in order to get more over time, along with

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an officer caught on video, putting a suspect in

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a chokehold and kneeling on his neck for several minutes

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are. Thank you so much for joining us today

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. Sure. First off, let's start with the

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case of the Metro Police officer wishing for more terror

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attacks After doing some digging, what did you find

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? Well, the department saw his body cam when

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they're responding to our request for Body Cam October one

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shooting and found a series of problems. He was

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late to showing up to the thing because his radio

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is off. He started making inappropriate comments like the

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one about how we need more of these terror shootings

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to get more over time. And then he didn't

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take a report from a woman who had claimed that

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she was sexually assaulted during the thing just told her

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to move on and made what the arbitrator called a

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sarcastic comment, Um, to his, uh,

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coworker. Wow. And what was the Police Department's

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response for reinstating someone like that? Well, the

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police department didn't talk to us about this, but

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obviously they felt that he couldn't do his job effectively

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and they fired him, and then an arbitrator from

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out of state came in and reverse that decision.

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And obviously department thinks that's problematic, for sure.

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And this investigation is not limited to police officers.

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There was also a case involving a school nurse's assistant

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. What more can you tell us about that case

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? Well, she at least three times she didn't

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treat diabetic Children for low blood sugar, which everyone

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knows is a pretty serious thing. You could you

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could go into Comey. The other things could happen

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. Um, at one point she said that she

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didn't want to be a team player and dropped the

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kid off with another, um uh, person at

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the at work because she was her job. Her

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time was done, right? She was. She

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was She wasn't gonna go on over time. Um

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, she again was fired first, a series of

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problems and reinstated again by an arbitrator given a six

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month suspension. But as far as we know,

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she's probably still working at the school district. Wow

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. And most of the people, the names,

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we don't actually know them. Um, and some

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people think some people think that needs to change,

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that. There needs to be more transparency in the

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system. Realistically, do you think that there could

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be changed in the near future? Well, I

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think it's tough because the unions which want this kind

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of arbitration, have a lot of power in the

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Legislature. Um, there's actually nothing in state law

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that says these these names aren't public, but there's

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a bunch of court rulings that go back and forth

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. The Legislature would have to come out and just

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say flatly that these kind of disciplinary records of people

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who are paid by taxpayers should be public, and

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taxpayers should know what these people are doing and what

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their supervisors are doing because of that. Okay.

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And finally, you talked to, uh, the

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union president for Metro employees, along with two people

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running to replace Joe Lombardo as Clark County Sheriff.

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What were their responses to your findings? Well,

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the union guy was obviously supportive. All these reversals

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, he feels that the agent agency screwed up,

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and these people deserve to stay on the job.

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Whether they did something wrong, maybe they thought the

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punishments were too harsh. Or maybe they technically didn't

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, uh, do the investigation properly. The two

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sheriff's candidates, obviously on the other end of it

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, where they think these people should have been fired

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and are concerned that people like these people will be

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rehired under their administrations, depending on who ends up

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winning. Wow. Well, thank you So much

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art for sharing your findings with us. Review Journal's

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Art Kane You can read more about this investigation online

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at l v r j dot com. You can

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mobile app. I'm Jenna. Thank you for joining

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