SAFETY IN STRIP PARKING GARAGES

I recently had the misfortune to return to my convertible in Paris / Ballys parking garage to find the roof had been slashed and a couple of things were stolen.  I reported it to Paris Security staff and also to the police.  They said security cameras did not cover the area on the 4th floor of the garage which is where the incident occurred.  Ergo my question is  ' how safe are these places ? '   Has anyone experienced a similar event ?

All sorts of reports of violence on strip & downtown, videos of attacks at downtown elevators, downtown in March 2021 had to stay alert.

Sounds like an 'inside job', with somebody who worked there knowing the 4th floor had no surveillance.  So sorry.  Hope your insurance took care of your losses.

Candy

Vegas parking garages aren't safe at all. Surveillance is a joke. Why do I say that?

Four years ago, I had my car broken into and completely looted of its contents. Those contents included camping gear, books, clothing, tools, a battery charger...even spare change in the center console. The amount of stuff taken was such that one person could not possibly have carried it all away. Furthermore, it must have taken ten-plus minutes to rummage through everything and take what was valuable.

This happened in a parking garage inside a prominent Las Vegas Strip megatoilet (which, because of court action that is still unresolved, I will not name here). I immediately reported it to Security, assuming that they would be able to check surveillance tapes to see who did this (my car was literally twenty feet from a camera). They said they couldn't be bothered to go through every tape for the previous day, since I couldn't tell them exactly when it might have happened (I was staying at the hotel).

Then I filed a police report downtown. I told the Metro officer that it would probably be easy to catch the perpetrator(s), since whoever took all my stuff must have loaded it into a car, which could be easily identified by its license plate on the camera(s). The officer said that they "couldn't spare the manpower to investigate" the crime.

In Vegas, I've been shot at while driving (shattering several windows; luckily, I was uninjured), held up at gunpoint (the robber got away with $37, all I had on me, after I told him flatly that he wasn't getting my wallet and showed him that was all the money that was in it), and had my car broken into while on casino property twice. For all four crimes, no one, casino security or the local authorities, did jack shit to help or investigate.

In Las Vegas, there is only one crime: taking money from a casino (this includes the heinous crime of simply winning). That, they'll investigate.

Wow, Kevin, that is nuts!!  I hope you prevail.  They're more crooked than the theives. 

Thank you for the input.  The thieves stole  my paperwork and garage remote as well as other things. Apparently what they do is use the paperwork to see where you live ; use the remote to get into the garage and if the garage leads into the house they can help themselves to anything in the house as they know you are not at home !! Luckily in my case, I live in a gated community and my garage is not attached to my Condo.            My incident occurred Feb 18 and the car has not been repaired yet and I have not had a rental car !! Thankyou ( NOT ) Geico.   Police have said there is nothing they can do without video evidence.   I plan to follow up with Caesars but judging by what Kevin said, I may be spitting in the wind   

Forget Caesars, Brian.  Get an attorney.   Geico may be trying to settle this with Caesars, which is an exercise in futililty and the reason for no action so far.  You have a police report.  Let an attorney handle it.  Attorney will make Geico get you a rental, get your car repaired, everything you pay those premiums for.  Casinos don't take responsibilit for stuff like this.  As if this happened on Walmart parking lot, Walmart wouldn't be responsible.  It is all on Geico.  GET AN ATTORNEY!  You too, Kevin.

Candy

Getting an attorney would be throwing good money after bad at this point. In my case, the casino has no liability for what happened; that's expressly stated in their parking contract, which I acceded to by parking on their property. What I wanted was their (minimal!) cooperation in reporting the incident to the police, which as my subsequent interaction with Metro's finest showed, would have been futile anyway. Nobody, the casino or the cops, gave two shits about it. So hiring an attorney would just be a futile attempt to chase sunk costs. Just about the only leverage I have is the police report, since I can't prove what items were in the car that I lost.

The essential problem is that Nevada is one giant company town, and you're trying to sue "the boss man." You have about as much chance of winning as you do of hitting Megabucks. My suit is in Superior Court rather than small claims, and I expect to lose it, since I got no cooperation from the police. However, I was able to subpeona the surveillance tapes from the casino--which by this point, of course, have already been erased/destroyed. But I at least put them through the hassle of coping with my suit; furthermore, I cc'ed pretty much everyone in the whole goddamn organization and sent copies of the letter to the Adelson Rag (LVRJ).

So I'm making noise, but as far as actually succeeding, as Bender from "Futurama" would say, "We're boned."

That's a fine tale Kevin. There is one small problem with your story. Nevada doesn't have a Superior Court. They don't have a small claims court either. The state of Nevada has Community Courts, Specialty Courts, Municipal Courts, Justice Courts,  District Courts, Appeals Courts and the Supreme Court. It appears that you were robbed a fourth time of your filing fee to a nonexistent Superior Court. You have to be the unluckiest Las Vegas visitor ever. We've been driving to Vegas for 35 years with no problems.

Well, now days I would say you are not totally safe anywhere. The past few years the criminals are more brazen than ever. It only takes a few minutes to rob you and be on their way. More security cameras than ever but, police departments are strapped for time and manpower. If you are not seriously injured or killed it will not get much attention. Sad, but this is where we were headed as a society. Drug addiction and few to no morals at an alarming rate!