squatting before. hey, man. got another one that we need to take a look at. i ll see you there. that s how we ended up in this middle class neighborhood at 9:45 on a wednesday. we still play devil s advocate. i want to hear their story, hear their side. see if they are a victim of someone who absconded the system and took their money. and if they can t provide reasonable enough evidence to show that they re supposed to be on the property, they re going to jail. which house is it? the very last one on the left. where shall we stay? i d stay at the edge of the driveway, back here. [ knocking ] hi, i m with the north las vegas police department. this is officer levit. you re probably wondering why we re here. okay. can you tell me how you got here? has anybody told you that the lease that you have is fictitious? well, they told us that the person that we got it from is
frustrates officer vaughn. they have no water. they have children. we provided them all the information for those kids to have a roof over their head today. and food in their belly and a clean bath and a great bill of health. it s on them at this point, and they walked away from it. so right now we secure the home, we ll turn the possession back over to the bank, and we ll go to our next one. had the family taken officer vaughn up on his offer, they may have been assigned to guys like lou and andrew. let s load this stuff up. two caseworkers for one of the city s biggest social service providers, help of southern nevada. almost daily, lou and andrew head out to hidden worlds and offer help to those living on the fringes. so the vegas that you re going to show us is not quite the vegas that we re used to seeing,
the cops are taking a hands-on targeted approach. there are nearly 14,000 vacant homes throughout las vegas. and squatters have become such a big problem that the north las vegas police department has started a task force to combat it. we re spending some time with some of the officers today, and because squatters are often armed, we have to wear these. officer scott vaughn leads the department s squatter enforcement effort. how many calls are you responding to a week with regard to squatters? it s daily. daily? if you looked at a map, it would look like somebody hit it with a shotgun, because it s everywhere. so wealthy neighborhoods. yes. middle income neighborhoods? everywhere. the squatter task force starts the day with a list of properties. first up, a house owned by a woman who lives out of state.
there are nearly 14,000 vacant homes throughout las vegas. and squatters have become such a big problem that the north las vegas police department has started a task force to combat it. we re spending some time with some of the officers today, and because squatters are often armed, we have to wear these. officer scott vaughn leads the department s squader enforcement effort. how many calls are you responding to a week with regard to squatters? it s daily. if you looked at a map, it would look like somebody hit it with a shotgun, because it s everywhere. so wealthy neighborhoods. yes. middle income neighborhoods? every where. the squatter task force starts the day with a list of properties. first up, a house owned by a woman who lives out of state. on her last visit, she encountered squatters who threatened her. the owner s kind of stayed