If you're talking about LVPD shootings they don't go to a jury, they go to a review board made up of political appointees.
That just scratches the surface.
In a yearlong investigation of police shootings in Clark County, the Review-Journal found that Las Vegas police tend to shoot more often than their counterparts in comparable cities, ranking third in shootings per capita and per reported violent crime among 16 cities surveyed.
The newspaper also found striking differences in the way Clark County prosecutors handle deaths at the hands of police and how they deal with other homicides. Chief among them: The district attorney won't review an officer's use of deadly force unless the head of the police agency requests it.
David Roger, Clark County's district attorney since 2002, acknowledges that he doesn't treat officer-involved shootings like other homicides.
"We review it in preparation for the inquest," said Roger, who earlier this month announced that he will leave office in January. He has an informal job offer from the Las Vegas Police Protective Association, the Metropolitan Police Department's rank-and-file officers union.
"If something stands out in our mind that there's additional investigation that is necessary, we have the opportunity to either send out our own investigator or ask the homicide detectives to go back and investigate," Roger said. "Or if we believe that it's criminal, we can move a different direction and not proceed through an inquest."
At least that's the theory. It hasn't happened that way in more than 30 years.
The deference paid to police is even more dramatic in cases where an officer shoots but only wounds or misses entirely. In those incidents, the district attorney looks at the case only if the shooting subject is being prosecuted.
"The sheriff is an elected official," Roger said, addressing his relationship with Las Vegas police, the state's largest law enforcement agency. "He's elected by the community. They have expressed a certain amount of confidence in the sheriff, and he can handle those cases that do not involve death."
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That's from
http://www.lvrj.com/news/deadly-force/broken-system-shattered-lives/coroner-s-inquests-undercut-by-prosecutorial-inaction-deference-to-police-134261653.html
