Chief Mike Gennaro
Assistant Sheriff, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Mike Gennaro serves as an Assistant Sheriff at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department with over 25 years of service at the agency. He has overseen critical divisions including Internal Affairs and directs modern public-safety technology initiatives.
1shows
1appearances
16statements
8resolved
5supported
0contradicted
63%fully supported
Everything Chief Mike Gennaro said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Chief Gennaro: Initial reports from officers at crime scenes are usually inaccurate
“Typically the first two phone calls we get, the information's not accurate. We're getting it from our own people. It's not that they're lying, but things evolve, situations evolve, facts change, right?”
Chief Gennaro: NYPD turnstile jumpers were frequently armed and committing violent crimes
“And then all of a sudden there was the expectation that you're going to start arresting people for hopping those turnstiles. And lo and behold, the guys that were hopping the turnstiles were guys that had firearms. Those guys were potentially going to do murde…”
Chief Gennaro: Incarceration is ineffective for many criminal offenders
“Locking people up isn't the answer. For a lot of people, right? It doesn't work, right?”
Chief Gennaro: LVMPD drones reach emergency scenes within 30 to 60 seconds
“Look, drones help us become more efficient and effective, and we can respond faster, save lives, and deescalate situations much quicker. You have a drone that can be overhead and You know, 30 seconds to a minute”
Chief Gennaro: Combining cameras and drones prevents unnecessary police traffic stops
“When you utilize both technologies, a flock found the vehicle, and now you have a drone overhead that's like, hey, this is the car right here. You bypass all those unnecessary police interactions, and now you have a very calculated response on a suspect vehicl…”
Chief Gennaro: Some US police departments have homicide closure rates near 30%
“Some of these agencies have a 30% closure rate, right? Or success rate. That means criminals committing homicides have a 70% chance of getting away with it.”
Chief Gennaro: Public safety requires making environments uncomfortable for criminals
“You have to have an environment That is going to breed success for this community. You can't have people hanging out on a, on the street corner. You can't have people hop in turnstiles. We can't have graffiti on the walls. It's got to be uncomfortable for crim…”
Chief Gennaro: COVID shutdowns shifted Las Vegas crime to domestic abuse
“Well, during COVID, there wasn't a lot of crime on the strip, right? Because it was closed, so we, there was a shift to different types of crimes, right? Now you had more child abuse cases, we had more residential burglaries things along that line, so there wa…”
Chief Gennaro: Community trust drives high homicide solve rates
“The fact that, you know, we have such a great relationship with the community that really helps drive that solve rate up because people are willing to come forward. They're willing to talk to us. They're willing to be a lot more compliant. Whereas in other cit…”
Chief Gennaro: LVMPD 911 center reached 100% staffing, sub-10-second response times
“And now look, we're a hundred percent staffed, and that was, like, within a year we got the staffing up, nine-on-one calls are answered in, you know, less than 10 seconds.”
Chief Gennaro: LVMPD uses Flock cameras to track homicide and robbery suspects
“We get a large number of Flock hits that help us find murder suspects, stolen vehicles, robbery suspects, where, you know, there's not a cop at that intersection, and the vehicle goes through, and it's like, ok, Flock got the vehicle”
Chief Gennaro: LVMPD deploys drones at every large-scale Las Vegas event
“You know, they're used all the time now for public safety at large-scale events, right? F-one, we, these drones are up, buzzing around all day, all night, covering such a vast area checking rooftops, looking for, you know, potential snipers or people that don'…”
Chief Gennaro: New tech will stream live 911 calls directly to officers
“Soon as someone calls nine one, the officer in the field is going to be able to hear that nine one call come in as it's actually coming in.”
Chief Gennaro: Bill Bratton introduced corporate accountability for crime stats to NYPD
“You know, I can tell you before Bratton was the police commissioner. If a homicide happened, you know, happened in a certain part of town, that captain really didn't have to answer many questions about that homicide, right? But what he started doing, one of th…”
Chief Gennaro: Some career criminals spend 80% of their adult life incarcerated
“You know, some of these guys, 80% of their adult life, they've spent incarcerated, and that's what they know.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Chief's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 a16zLEDGER | Assistant Sheriff, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | 1 | 16 | 63% 5/8 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |