It just takes one high-profile crime to scare visitors off the Las Vegas Strip — and chill the tourism that drives the entire Nevada economy.
But hospitality leaders’ proposed solution — bringing back a now-dissolved Resort Corridor Court to deal with crimes exclusively from the Strip, often using the tool of “order outs” that ban people from an entire district for months — has reignited questions about efficiency, effectiveness and whether the arrangement is too heavy-handed on homeless people.
“It’s literally just a plea factory for homeless people to put them in jail for longer and longer sentences,” said Erica Webb, an attorney with the Clark County Public Defender’s Office.
