Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department vehicles line up on the Strip on Dec. 3, 2015. Several fatal police encounters in Las Vegas that didn't involve a gun between 2012 and 2021 involved subjects who had a history of mental illness and who were using stimulants, particularly meth. (Tomás Del Coro, Wikimedia via Howard Center for Investigative Journalism)

An investigation by the Howard Center and AP found that people in Nevada who died during or after police encounters often had both histories of mental illness and meth in their systems at the time of their deaths.

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