Illegal Gambling Rooms Keep Springing Up throughout Hawaii

Illegal Gambling Rooms Keep Springing Up throughout Hawaii. But Police Have Few Tools To Shut Them Down (really!?) 非法賭博室在整個夏威夷不斷湧現。 但是警察沒有什麼工具可以關閉他們（真的!?) By Jacob Geanous

Gambling is illegal in Hawaii, but local police have few tools to crack down on the increasingly common backroom operations that provide access to slot machines and table games.

It’s not illegal to own or even use a gaming machine unless money changes hands, so little can be done to stem the flow of gambling machines to the island.

It’s also time consuming for local authorities to enforce the law. An investigation into just one game room can take weeks while officers gather enough evidence for a judge to sign a search warrant for a raid.

And when raids take place, data provided by the Honolulu Police Department shows that not all raids result in arrests and even when they do, they don’t often lead to the apprehension of the individuals running the game rooms.