It isn’t about criminal elements but what makes people turn to crime. Millions of people unemployed with no end in sight, corporations still cutting jobs, the pathetic $1200 one time stimulus has been spent for months, rent and mortgage protections going away if not gone in almost every state, some people that even were able to return to work are so far behind financially they may never come back. A town like Las Vegas that relies on tourism is getting hit even harder than most so you have more people that fall into these categories. When people are backed into a corner financially and have no other recourse, of course crime is going to go up.
]]>Right. Crime seems to be up because most law-abiding people are staying away from LV and other places. What’s left is a higher concentration of people who aren’t so law-abiding and then things happen. It’s the same reason why even in normal times, crimes happen way more often after midnight. Once the criminal element gets diluted again (if our fed government ever takes COVID recovery seriously) things will get better again.
]]>Don’t count on that any time soon. Deferring or even neglecting maintenance is a time-honored Las Vegas cost-reduction technique. It’s the same at the Rio.
]]>Las Vegas garners headlines and carries outsize importance. The casino/resorts need to get proactive, its their businesses that will suffer. LV Metro is a very professional police force, nobody has “defunded” them one nickel, this whole “defund the police” nonsense has zero to do with the spike in violence. If people continue to make everything political we will go nowhere. What we have is a big problem, it needs attention, it needs resources, its going on right now, politics is a long game, we need short game right now…
]]>It’s not just a Vegas thing. Crime is up all over the country due to the idiotic defund the police movements. The only people that want the police to be defunded are the criminals. Without a doubt, this is one the most backward thinking movements in history.
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