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Monkey Slots - D.C.'s Eighth Ward Won't Agree to Slots

Washington D.C.'s consideration of putting slot machines in the districts poorest neighborhood has been met by an emphatic negative response that seems to reveal that the board of elections and ethics was pretty out of sink with its constituents after voting to place the slot machine initiative on the coming November ballot. But despite certain opinions that the slot machines would bring in much needed money for the community, other just see them as tools in their destruction, “We don’t need casinos here. There’s already enough crime and problems here. Why don’t they make an initiative to clean up this part of town? We’re against this. They don’t ask the young what they want but I’m letting them know.”

For residents of the neighborhood in question the negative aspect of the slot machines seem the most obvious and prevalent result if they were installed, so the almost sly way that the state is trying to slip the initiative in the upcoming ballot is an underhanded way to exploit the already ailing community and give a quick fix which would only cause more problems in the end. “They want to sneak this on the ballot and we’re going to fight this, These slot machines would have a devastating affect on an already devastated community.”

The district defends their choice by saying that the slot machines would give money to the areas schools and elderly, but more people in the research world are confirming the residents fears that in low income areas the presence of gambling will inherently increase certain crimes, a crime residents say is the last thing anyone needs in the area, "The store where they want to place these things needs to be closed anyway. You can’t get in without turning sideways and you can’t get out without turning again because every child in the area is standing in front of the store. The place is dirty and filthy. Slot machines will just make it worse.”