Vegas was a safer place when the Mob ran it.
I was stationed in LAs Vegas twice at the air base. The first was 72 to 76 and again in 184 to 1991.
The first tour, the Family influence was still present but was waning in power.
When we returned in 1984, mob impact was gone. Drugs flooded in for California and the gangs’ were getting out of control.
We were able to flee in 1991 and by then we were living on the base, and saw armed guards patrolling the streets ON BASE to keep control. We had the Metro Pork Chopper fly over our base residence almost nightly chasing gang bangers...
Sorry, could pay me to go back, the place is an extension of Compton, even the Strip is no longer ‘safe’