A retired Las Vegas law enforcement officer who served nearly three decades and most recently ran a California law enforcement agency plans to run for the Ward 4 open council.
Robert Plummer, a former Metropolitan Police Department captain, is trying to replace temporary Las Vegas city councilor Stavros Anthony, saying he felt compelled to get involved to keep family close after returning to the city in January to be. (Antony also retired from the Metro as captain before winning a council seat.)
Plummer, 53, after a 28-year career with Metro, was police chief in Napa, California for less than three years, where he worked in the homicide division and the Bolden Little League in the Historic a few years ago. co-founded west side.
The baseball youth organization was founded to reduce crime and increase community engagement in the area, he said in an interview on Tuesday. Parents are involved and children participate free of charge. Little League dormant in the neighborhood for seven years before being revived in 2017 with local business owner Mario Berlanga Jr.
“Just by reaching out to the community and listening to them and listening to what they want and being able to respond and give that to them helps with community pride,” he said.
“I think the same way of thinking can be carried over to Ward 4,” he added.
Plummer, who moved to the city as a child, will become a new resident of the community as part of the urban redistribution. He always lived in Ward 6, he found, which is also in northwest Las Vegas. But he said voters shouldn’t worry about how he grasps Ward 4’s troubles, as he believes the two counties are similar and he had also served as a Metro lieutenant in Ward 4.
I don’t want to follow California
Perhaps not unexpectedly, Plummer said that public safety was a key issue in his candidacy.
The Sun City Summerlin neighborhood, which is in the district he is running for, has seen a surge in burglaries this year. To contain the problem, Plummer suggested increased patrols, worked with programs to monitor the neighborhood and trained residents, among other things, to be less vulnerable to criminals.
Its platform also focuses on improving city parks and streets, and leveraging the council office’s visibility to advocate for students. He is a proponent of school choice.
Plummer, a political freshman, said he learned about the inner workings of the city government while serving as the Napa police chief, where he was also suspicious of the political climate in California and the response of elected officials in the state to a number of issues, including homelessness faced and a crisis of affordable housing.
“I don’t think they were addressed the way they should have been,” he said.
Specifically, Plummer said these issues appear to have no real plan or have not been prioritized.
Homelessness remains a pervasive problem in Las Vegas. While Plummer called the city’s open-air Courtyard Homeless Resource Center a good start, he said the city needs to partner with Clark County, Metro, nonprofit, and religious groups to develop an improved diversion program.
The registration deadline for candidates for out-of-court races in 2022 starts March 7th. The primaries will take place on June 14th.
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