“There is a very intentional effort to de-escalate,” said Mehmet Erdem, associate professor of hotel operations and technology at UNLV.Īnd that list doesn’t include a pair of recent robberies on the Strip. As such, the key is to comply with a robber’s demands and never confront them, then surveillance technology to capture the perpetrator later. So how is it that there have been four unsolved robberies of off-Strip casinos across the Las Vegas Valley since November?Įxperts say the casinos have no interest in taking a robbery situation and risk turning it into something more violent or tragic. “And the eye in the sky is watching us all,” he says, a line that holds true in the real Las Vegas outside of the movies. At the top of this food chain: the all-seeing surveillance cameras. It’s one of the more famous scenes from Martin Scorsese’s movie “Casino,” when Robert DeNiro’s character Sam Rothstein lists the myriad layers of security that go into protecting the fictional Tangiers from cheaters. The Rampart casino (Las Vegas Review-Journal file)
