Las Vegas

7 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 8, 2024 by Sheriff Kevin McMahill · said 114 times in 30 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Ben Horowitz (32), Marc Andreessen (17), Sheriff Kevin McMahill (15), David Ulevitch (10), Garrett Langley (6), Katherine Boyle (5), Erik Torenberg (4), Tony Robbins (3)

tap a year for its mentions
0030560102017201820192020202120222023202420252026episodesmentions
05102017201820192020202120222023202420252026episodes it came up in
005510102017201820192020202120222023202420252026episodesmentions per episode
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 32 mentions in 8 episodes 4 per episode
2024 56 mentions in 6 episodes 9 per episode
2023 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 13 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about Las Vegas, oldest first

Feb 8, 2024
Assertion Supported
McMahill: 2017 Las Vegas shooting resulted in 60 deaths and 850 injuries
“58 people died that day, and two subsequent. 422 other people were shot and survived after being shot with an AR 15, and 850 people were injured.”
Sheriff Kevin McMahill Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 7:18 Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Nov 18, 2024
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sheriff McMahill: Other US cities will adopt policing tech slower than Vegas
“There'll be a slower implementation of these types of programs across the United States. They're just not going to be able to get to them as rapidly as we are, but we're going to prove it's going to work, and I think more and more municipalities will find the …”
Sheriff Kevin McMahill Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 48:57 Las Vegas is Becoming the SAFEST City in America
Nov 18, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sheriff McMahill: Community trust saved Las Vegas from 2020 riot destruction
“We didn't get our community burned down like Minneapolis or, downtown taken over like Seattle or Portland or any of these other places because it wasn't just me, but it was people throughout this community that said, that's not our police department.”
Sheriff Kevin McMahill Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 20:58 Las Vegas is Becoming the SAFEST City in America
Nov 18, 2024
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Sheriff McMahill: 75% to 80% of Las Vegas crime occurs in 10 hotspots
“In Las Vegas specifically, Roughly 75 to 80% of all of our crime occurs in those 10 areas.”
Sheriff Kevin McMahill Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 13:22 Las Vegas is Becoming the SAFEST City in America
Nov 18, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Horowitz: Las Vegas diverts first-time offenders to Hope for Prisoners over jail
“One of the things we do here in Vegas is, you know, if you're a first-time offender you know, so many criminals are not alphas, they're betas. They went along with their idiot friends, committed a crime, and then they end up in jail, and then they can't get ba…”
Ben Horowitz Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 1:10:07 Las Vegas is Becoming the SAFEST City in America
Apr 23, 2025
Assertion Supported
Horowitz: Las Vegas public safety drones respond within 90 seconds
“So we've deployed prepared nine one, flock safety, Skydio drones and so basically, so, so the way to think about it is, if a gunshot goes off, or if an emergency call comes in or if you kind of show up on a, ah, flag safety camera, you know, and you've kidnapp…”
Ben Horowitz Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 27:06 Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
Apr 23, 2025
Assertion Supported
Horowitz: Las Vegas leads US with 94% murder clearance rate
“Las Vegas Was interesting, first, because, ah, it had the highest murder solve rate in the country, with 94% of murders get cleared in Las Vegas, and if you compare that, like, San Francisco's like 70, 75%, ah, Chicago's in the thirties.”
Ben Horowitz Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 25:31 Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,000 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.