Also a lot of grungy homeless people on the strip.

That’s just tourist hotspots in the US in general (could generally just leave out the tourist part as well). I grew up in a summer tourist town and that county has the highest rates of addiction and homelessness in the entire state. When tourism becomes the economy, it pushes everything else out and leaves no room for locals to live. Half the businesses are closed 9 months out of the year and it’s so crowded during the last 3 that you couldn’t go anywhere if you wanted to.

When the mob looks like the picture of piousness in a story, you know it’s bad.

Of course, you also know that just by the fact that corporations are involved.