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On February
26, 2012, The Associated Press reported on crime rates around Connecticut
casinos since openings. In 1992,
Foxwoods opened and in 1996 Mohegan Sun opened. In 2011 Mohegan Sun generated $719 million
in slot machine revenue and Foxwoods generated $650 million in slot machine
revenue. Prior to the opening, Governor
Lowell Weicker warned in 1991 that the opening of Foxwoods in 1992 would lead
to crime, prostitution, drunk driving, and other related crime. After Foxwoods, the first casino opened,
thefts rose substantially with larcenies accounting for most of the
crimes. Today, Larceny is the largest
theft crime among both casinos. Embezzlement's have more than tripled due most likely to gambling
debts. Connecticut averages about 158
embezzlement annually. Before the
casinos, the number of reported embezzlement's cases averaged around 49.
In 2006, the
professors, Earl Grinols at Baylor University in Texas and David Mustard at the
University of Georgia completed a study on crime resulting from casinos. They were not paid additional for this
study. This was part of a faculty study
at the University of Georgia. They found
that except for murder, there was a rise in all crimes with 8% property crimes
and 12% violent crimes when a casino was put in place. They wrote in 2006, "Specifically,
problem and pathological gamblers commit crimes as they deplete their
resources, nonresidents who visit casinos may both commit and be victims of
crime, and casino-induced changes in the population start small but grow,"
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