Crime Surges 300 Percent Around MGM Springfield Since Casino’s August Opening

Crime Surges 300 Percent Around MGM Springfield Since Casino’s August Opening

Crime increases will undoubtedly occur, whenever a community adds any kind of facility that attracts millions on new visitors. Unfortunately, the FBI only counts an area's permanent population, when determining their violent and property crime rates. So cities like Las Vegas and Atlantic City are very high; but even higher is Orlando, with Disney World, Epcot, Universal Studios and many other family attractions.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.