Nevada wants to allow non-citizen cops

Police departments across the country have been having a hard time hiring new recruits.Nevada has a new proposal to get more officers on the street...

January 22, 2023
8:28 PM

Police departments across the country have been having a hard time hiring new recruits.Nevada has a new proposal to get more officers on the streets: to let non-U.S. citizens join the force."When we started looking at what the state had done in 2015 when they had done basically the same thing for teachers, we said why don't we just do the same thing for police officers," said Jared Luke, the North Las Vegas Director of Government Affairs.There are about 140,000 Nevada residents that have legal authorization to work in the U.

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