police would be out in \u201cfull force\u201d on the Strip<\/a> over the Fourth of July weekend. The captain has been active in tweeting pictures of illegal firearms and narcotics that police have confiscated in recent weeks on the Strip and nearby tourist areas.<\/p>\nBased on pre-pandemic July 4 crowds, an estimated 300,000 people were expected to view fireworks shows launched from casinos on the Strip and downtown. The largest hotel-casinos in the state are on the Strip, outside Las Vegas city limits. The combined city-county Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, known locally as Metro, patrols both areas.<\/p>\n
In summarizing the weekend on Monday, Koren tweeted, \u201cThe crowd last night was the largest it\u2019s been since early last year. Our cops did an exceptional job keeping things in order & making sure there were no major incidents on the Strip.\u201d<\/p>\n
In late June, Koren tweeted that violent crime was down by 11 percent on the Strip. Within days after that tweet, a man was shot while beating a woman at the Sahara Las Vegas on the northeast end of the Strip. The suspect survived the gunshot wound and has been arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Las Vegas police officer was hospitalized with a gunshot wound during a July 4 weekend that had police out in \u201cfull force\u201d during casino fireworks shows and other events, a police captain said. The shooting occurred early Sunday, when police responded to a 1:33 am \u201cdisturbance\u201d on the 3300 block of Al Davis Way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":178695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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