Slot Machines Do Not Bring in Crime

Whenever someone talks about bringing in slot machines someone else automatically links it to crime. People always have all these statistics that they can quote and stories that they can tell about slot machines bringing nothing but crime and addiction to their city. They say that slot machines are the worst possible things that a city or a state can do to themselves and they argue that they should not bring them in.
 
However, whenever you talk to a city that actually has brought in slot machines they don’t have those same stories to tell. Rather they tell the opposite – they say that the slot machines have not brought in any extra crime and some cities report that their crimes have actually gone down. They say that the number of robberies, murders, beatings, etc. have all decreased since slot machines came to town.
 
According to a recent report from British Columbia, the slot machines that came to Hastings Park fall into the latter category. They say that the number of crimes, etc. have dropped since the slot machines came into their town. The City of Vancouver reports that there has been no increase in crime, although they say that gambling addiction is still a problem.
 
They say in addition to a decrease in crime they brought in a nice amount of revenue. They reportedly brought in $2.6 billion in slot machine revenue last year, and expect there to be even more this year.

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