I figured someone had to go on a fact finding mission instead of arguing with idiots until I’m blue in the face. As usual, that someone is me. Obviously the morons will deny anything they don’t want to hear, but this isn’t for them. This is for those the lying preachers and their ilk are attempting to deceive.

There is only one truth.

Do urban casinos increase local crime? Not in this case study

Date:

July 17, 2014

Source:

Drexel University

Summary:

Residents protested the opening of Philadelphia’s SugarHouse Casino in 2010, but researchers found that crime rates were largely unaffected by the introduction of the gaming establishment. The study found that crime rates in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia were largely unaffected by the introduction of the gaming establishment, and that any potential significant crime increases either did not occur or were effectively controlled by a reassignment of existing local police officers.

Entitled “A Partial Test of the Impact of a Casino on Neighborhood Crime,” the study was published online on by Palgrave MacMillan’s Security Journal, a peer-reviewed journal for security researchers and professionals. It is expected to run in an upcoming print issue of the journal. The full article is available here.

The study was conducted by Lallen T. Johnson, PhD, an assistant professor of criminal justice in Drexel University’s College of Arts and Sciences, and Jerry H. Ratcliffe, PhD, a professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University.

“The arrival of the gaming industry to the city of Philadelphia was met with much controversy and protest,” said Johnson. “In particular, anti-casino community activists and organizations believed that gambling would lead to increased crime and disorder. Early discussions about the arrival of SugarHouse revolved around whether the added tax revenue would outweigh the social cost of the expected increased crime. Although reasonable concerns, our findings suggest that these negative expectations did not play out in this case.”

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Here are some more non-biased statistics concerning the pros and cons of casinos. Being that nothing is perfect, it looks pretty good in the long run.

The Economic and Social Effects of Casinos

The National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA) notes in An Analysis of the Economic Impact of Indian Gaming in 2005 (2005, http://www.indiangaming.org/NIGA_econ_impact_2005.pdf) that tribal gaming and associated businesses had:

• Generated revenues of $22.6 billion in 2005 from Native American gaming
• Generated another $2.7 billion in gross revenue from related hospitality and entertainment services
• Created six hundred thousand jobs
• Paid $6.9 billion in wages
• Paid $7.6 billion in federal taxes and revenue savings
• Paid $2.2 billion in state taxes, revenue sharing, and regulatory payments
• Paid more than $100 million to local governments
• Funded essential tribal programs, such as schools, hospitals, water and sewer systems, roads, police and firefighting programs, and cultural and social projects

Now I’m sure that some communities that gained casinos had a small spike in random crime, but no community has shown even remote signs of the “devastation” and nightmarish chaos that these anti-casino fuckwits have tried to fear-monger our people with. They are sanctimonious liars that are trying to rule our lives and as a community we should have had enough of this crap by now.

These vermin have caused the closure of businesses they don’t like. They have prevented establishments from opening by usurpering the Christian religion. They have harmed the progress and prosperity of our people and community long enough. Reject these hypocrites. They don’t give a fuck about us.

Now personally, a little better drug flow and some fresh prostitutes with nice bodies and teeth would be a nice change of pace. ;-]_~

-captainkona