Atlantic City & Casinos - From 50th to 1st In Crime in Three Years
By Roldo Bartimole. Published on 09/25/2009 - 7:43pm
If you don’t have enough reasons to vote against gambling casinos, Brian Rothenberg, director of ProgressOHIO, has some gems. As the fact that in the first three years of legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City it went from 50th in crime to NO. 1.
Oh, just what Cleveland needs, right?
He also notes that casino licenses in the U. S. typically go for from $300 million to $500 million. Why not, it’s a license to take someone’s money. In Ohio the price tag for a casino monopoly: $50 million.
Cleveland does everything on the cheap, why not this?
He’s got more info on his site here:
Comments
What Mr. Rothenberg didn't tell you in his statistic on Atlantic City crime, was that the 300% increase in crimes, primarily non violent, was accompanied by an increase in visitors to AC from 4 million to 35 million annually ( over 800%) and that approximately 60,000 new jobs were created in casino and support industries. The FBI crime stats compare crime to the City's permanent population, of less than 40,000; but include the crime committed by visitors to visitors, as if they were committed by residents to other residents. But more recent FBI data (2007) shows that violent crime in Orlando, with Disney World, Epcot, Universal Studios, Marine World and many more family attractions, has 3 1/2 more violent crime than Atlantic City and more that 3 times the non violent crime, with a similar number of visitors. In fact serious crimes, like murder are fewer today than they were before casino gaming came to rescue that seaside resort.
If Cleveland wants to lessen crime then they should sell the Cavaliers, the Browns and the Indians; close all the hotels, restaurants, museums, acquariums and malls, and crime would probably decrease. However will all of those new un-employed, some might have to turn to crime to support their families.
Steve Norton
16 April 2007
3 hours 5 min
You mean visitor to visitor crime is not crime? Crime against a visitor is okay? Atlantic City doesn't pay the costs?
No one can take those hyperbolic jobs figures seriously. We remember the 28,000 jobs promised by Gateway for Cleveland. Didn't happen.