{"id":44606,"date":"2019-01-21T19:51:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T00:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acprimetime.com\/?p=44606"},"modified":"2019-01-24T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:36:36","slug":"crime-dark-streets-and-loss-of-gaming-monopoly-thwart-atlantic-city-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acprimetime.com\/crime-dark-streets-and-loss-of-gaming-monopoly-thwart-atlantic-city-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime, Dark Streets and Loss of Gaming Monopoly Thwart Atlantic City Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Geoff Rosenberger : CRDA Board Meeting 12\/18\/18 - Streetlight failures &amp; crime in Tourism District\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/box6dTn-X5Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a class=\" UFICommentActorName\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/karen.petitt.5?fref=ufi&amp;rc=p\" target=\"_self\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;;&quot;}\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/hovercard.php?id=1387996313&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22is_public%22%3Atrue%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D\">Karen Petitt-Bohrer<\/a>\u00a0<span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">I\u2019ve driven on Pacific Avenue lately and am floored that traffic signal lights are missing. It\u2019s bizarre. Drivers cannot tell who has the light and can\u2019t see when the light changes. It\u2019s so unsafe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CRDA Casino Reinvestment Development Authority scoffed. It\u2019s always the other guy\u2019s problem. Issues are deflected again and again while publicly asked questions go unanswered for years.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor still has authority over city mercantile licenses.<\/p>\n<p>Major Drug Bust Near Atlantic and Tennessee Ave in Atlantic City.<\/p>\n<p>On September 20, the\u00a0Atlantic City Police Department raided the 24 Seven Food Mart at 1406 Atlantic Avenue.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They recovered 26 grams of cocaine<\/li>\n<li>87 bags of heroin<\/li>\n<li>$2,006 from alleged drug sales.<\/li>\n<li>One was identified by police as a store clerk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Atlantic City&#8217;s War on Drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The market was raided and shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Dale Finch is the Director of Licensing &amp; Inspections.<\/p>\n<p>Finch revoked the mercantile license and kept the market closed.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Gilliam forced Finch to give back the mercantile license.<\/p>\n<p>At the November 7 City Council meeting, after another city resident (Victor Jenkins) described the conditions on Atlantic Avenue (\u201cemergency\u201d conditions),<\/p>\n<p>Councilmen said the shop had been closed after the clerk was arrested for selling drugs from behind the cash register.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are they back in business, Mr. Finch<span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">the Licensing &amp; Inspections Director.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">How do we expect our police to continue doing their job, when they go raid the place, catch ownership involved in the distribution of drugs, and we give mercantiles back? I don\u2019t get that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Petitt-Bohrer\u00a0I\u2019ve driven on Pacific Avenue lately and am floored that traffic signal lights are missing. It\u2019s bizarre. Drivers cannot tell who has the light and can\u2019t see when the light changes. It\u2019s so unsafe. CRDA Casino Reinvestment Development Authority scoffed. It\u2019s always the other guy\u2019s problem. Issues are deflected again and again while publicly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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