What is the rate per number of visitors?
]]>If you don’t want crime increases, then I suggest you do not seek sports arenas or stadiums, theaters or malls, museums, casinos or racetracks. A more accurate way to analyze crime, is to compute the? number of persons at risk; including the average daily visitor count, and workers commuting from other areas, along with the permanent population; and then compare this total to the number of crimes. What we discovered in Atlantic City, is that a persons chance of being involved in a crime dramatically decreased, and the great majority of crimes were against property; a stolen?car, coin theft, or a room robbery. And because our AC casinos had hundreds of security personnel, crimes were more likely to be reported.
A more reasonable reason for denying a casino, and other kinds of commerce, is a concern about traffic congestion. But then you loose the opportunity to create thousands of new jobs, tens of $millions in new taxes, millions of new visitors and?hundreds of $millions in new construction.
Casinos themselves do not cause an increase in crime, but the criminal opportunities, created by millions of new visitors, is undoubtedly the culprit; but fortunately these acts primarily involve property; include no violence, and usually effect the visitor population.?
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