I want to even believe the idea of even associating gambling with crime is over stated and based on what some would have watched in movies with casinos being used for some underground deals, they just assume that every casino owner is dirty.
You cannot know who is dirty until you catch them dirty and one thing is that even though we may see some different caliber of people in the gambling world, that still does not mean crime cannot happen even outside the gambling environment. Criminality is only applicable to each individual and has nothing to do with gambling in its entirety.
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, you would not blame us all for all the things we have been accustomed to seeing in the movies when it comes to casinos and that has really brought about the mindset that casinos are always involved in dirty deals which has been happening over the years and still happening till date.
I remember some seasonal movies I watched recently, The Deuce as well as Power and at the end of the day, it still all pointed towards one thing with gambling, and that is crime.
I really do not know how this is in the real world anyway, but one thing for sure is that I would not expect that because it is like that in the movies, people should just assume that is the way it is in real life, because you really would not know if there is a criminal activity in the first place until they are caught.