Las Vegas Government

[reno]

Ya gotta love the Las Vegas Police Department. After all, these guys know where their bread is buttered. A recent article in The Las Vegas Review Journal detailed the complaints of a Las Vegas couple that had their Honda Accord stolen a couple of weeks ago. According to the angry couple, the Las Vegas Police had never gotten around to investigating the theft. The police response was that they lack the manpower to expeditiously investigate stolen vehicles.

What the article failed to mention was the reason the Las Vegas Police lack the manpower. The real reason is they are concentrating their efforts on trying to get money from famous sportsbettor Billy Walters.
I mean, who cares about car thiefs when you have someone like Billy Walters to go after.
Billy's only crime is picking winners and making millions. He represents zero percent danger to the public, but mucho $$$ profit to the Fuzz department.

The bottom line is this: If you make millions betting sports, the Las Vegas Police will try to find some B.S. nitpickety
law to extort your loot. If your parking meter is one minute past expiration, they are great at giving you a a costly parking ticket. They even have the gall to call these omnipresent meter maids "public servants." But if your car is stolen, don't waste your time calling the police.

[Chester]

Reno,
Good to see that you made it back hope that things are well.

[BigMoney]

. . . only in America.

But don't forget their "most favored state" status for sportsbetting.

[reno]

Chester, good to hear from you. Now that you've left Aruba, where did you park yourself? Also, you might want to add some details about Aruba on my Caribbean Tour post. Perhaps like the dangers of getting one's tire stems cut or tires shredded.

[Sergius]

Las Vegas police, I've found, tend to have a particularly strong mean streak. And I'm from L.A....

One wonders about the fix Jay Cohen would be in if it had been Nevada, and not New York, who prosecuted him...

[Sergius]

One more remark about Jay Cohen.
The Las Vegas press interviewed a few sportsbook managers at the time of Cohen's conviction. They expressed sympathy for his situation. But I wonder how sympathetic hotel executives and state casino lobbyists were. Even though Cohen's case was a federal one, I wouldn't be surprised if Nevada interests had some role, however small, in the outcome.

[reno]

Who says government does nothing for the people? Why in downtown Las Vegas the parking meters used to only be operative til either 5:00 or 6:00 PM. Now they are operative til 8:00 PM.