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Online Gambling Raids Waste Online Gambling Revenue
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA --
With California facing an incredible $25 billion budget deficit , state residents are questioning why the state wastes resources busting tiny online gambling operations at Internet cafes, while money can't be found for essential services. Raids of such operations in the San Diego area resulted in no arrests and the confiscation of 33 machines and around $13,000.
The police action is the result of an undercover operation involving both state and local authorities. No comment was given by officials as to the cost to the state to mount and sustain the investigation.
Many voters want to know why online gambling would become a priority for law enforcement. A columnist for the San Diego Reader, writing as Aunt San Diego, points out that the state has plenty of legal gambling, and wonders why Internet gaming is not only illegal, but thought worthy of such special attention.
The column suggests that there is a long list of potential government services, including water resources, firefighting, and state parks that are better recipients of any spare funding than an Internet gaming inquiry.
Even if police, whose departments throughout the state are dealing with layoffs and attrition losses due to lack of funding, do have man-hours to use, the paper argues that time would be more wisely invested in preventing and investigating violent crimes and crimes against property than long-term reviews of possible Internet gambling operations.
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