Aren Indian casinos magnets for crime?
Tribal government gaming is more regulated and more secure than the traditional commercial gaming, with four separate and independent levels of regulation. Federal, state and tribal officials oversee all gaming operations. Tribes, as sovereign governments, are careful to protect the reliability and honesty of tribal government gaming, because tribal government gaming is helping them to feed, house, clothe, educate and employ their people. Our tribal government gaming facility will offer several types of security, from radio equipped foot and bicycle patrols in parking areas, to armed guards in money-handling areas. The city will also provide law enforcement services as prescribed by the MSA. It is interesting to note that there is no statistical evidence that we have found indicating that crime goes up in areas around tribal government gaming facilities. In fact, a recent Harvard University study found that rates of certain crimes actually fell in areas surrounding tribal government ga
