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MANILA, Philippines - The heightened campaign against illegal gambling kicked off yesterday with the arrest of 13 persons four in Quezon City and nine in Central Luzon.

In a one time, big time operation, the Quezon City Police District arrested Annie Santos, Rolando Santos, Benito Dizon and Carlito dela Cruz, all alleged collectors of jueteng, an illegal numbers game prevalent in Luzon.

They were reportedly plying their trade when the police arrested them yesterday noon along Sauyo Road in Novaliches.

At least P2,747 in bets and some bet records were recovered from them. These would be used as evidence in a charge for violating Presidential Decree 1602, which defines illegal gambling activities and prescribes corresponding penalties.

In Bataan province, a jueteng financier and an operator were arrested in separate police operations.

Chief Supt. Aaron Aquino, police director for Region 3, said suspects Matilde Manuel and Nico Ombrog were caught in the act of doing drop balls, a process in the jueteng game.

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He said the Orani municipal police station and the Bataan intelligence branch caught Manuel, 55, inside her residence in Barangay Culis in Hermosa town. Manuel is said to be a jueteng financier and operator.

Ombrog, a resident of Dinalupihan town in Bataan, was also caught redhanded.

Aquino said the raiding police teams confiscated one drop ball basket, four betting boards, two plastic trays, two drop balls and P590 in cash.

The Arayat town police also conducted their own drive yesterday and arrested Junmar Dizon in Barangay Bitas. Dizon is said to be a cabo (supervisor) of jueteng bet collectors.

In Tarlac province, the Bamban town police arrested Danilo Manalo, who was among those found playing sakla, an illegal cards game, in Barangay Virgen de los Remedios. The other bettors were able to escape when they sensed the approaching policemen.

At least P750 in bet money, a playing board, a set of Spanish cards and a marker were taken as evidence.

The San Jose del Monte police also conducted their own anti-illegal gambling drive and arrested Joshua Zarcilla, Jay Peralta, Tommy Gaulala, Rouando Booc andEdgardo Manaligod Jr. for playing cara cruz, an illegal coins game, in Barangay Gaya-gaya.

President Duterte earlier issued Executive Order 13 to direct the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies to intensify the governments campaign against illegal gambling. With Ric Sapnu

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HARTSVILLE, S.C. -- A search warrant resulted in one arrest when numerous illegal gambling events and machines were discovered on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 1826 S. Fifth Street in Hartsville.

Deputies with the Darlington County Sheriff's Office, with assistance from the Hartsville Police Department and SLED, found several "poker style tables" with poker chips and money tallies of illegal gambling events.

Multiple illegal poker video gaming systems were also discovered during the search, according to a release from the Darlington County Sheriff's Office.

Shannon Marie Witherspoon, 40, of Darlington was arrested during the service of the search warrant and was charged with five counts of possession of gambling devices, one count of operating a gambling house, one count of unlawful games and betting and one count of betting.

Witherspoon has since been released on a $10,000 bond.

This case remains under investigation by the Darlington County Sheriffs Office and additional arrest warrants are pending, according to the release.

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LAKEWOOD The Village Board is set to vote Tuesday evening on an ordinance that would rescind McHenry Countys last remaining ban on video gambling.

An ordinance that would allow for video gambling within village limits is on the agenda for the meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. at Turnberry Country Club. The new management of the club at 9600 Turnberry Trail approached village leaders in October about undoing the ban.

Should Lakewood reverse the ban, the country club and three of the four other businesses holding village liquor licenses would be eligible for gaming permits.

Lakewood was one of six local governments that banned video gambling under an opt-out in the 2009 state law that legalized it to finance a $31 billion capital plan.

Five of the six have since changed their minds, the most recent being Crystal Lake, after bar and restaurant owners complained that the bans put them at a competitive disadvantage.

Establishments that serve alcohol, truck stops, and fraternal and veterans organizations can have up to five of the machines under state law.

The state gets 30 percent of the proceeds, 5 percent of which goes back to local governments. The remaining 70 percent is split between the business and the company that operates the machines.

The machines under state law must be located in an area accessible only to people at least 21 years old, and in the case of restaurants, must be within view of an adult employee. Machines cannot be visible from outside the building.

Woodstock reversed its ban in 2012. Cary, Algonquin and the McHenry County Board reversed their bans in 2013, and Crystal Lake reversed its ban last year.

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On Thursday, President Donald TrumpDonald TrumpTrump could find Latino support on infrastructure Texas Dem: Natural barriers a challenge to border wall plan How Trump is achieving Reagans peace through strength approach to foreign policy MORE signed an Executive Order directing the Department of Justice to implement a plan to stop crime and crimes of violence against law enforcement officers.

The order instructs the department to pursue appropriate legislation...that will define new Federal crimes, and increase penalties for existing federal crimes, in order to prevent violence against federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement officers. That recommended legislation could include defining new crimes of violence and establishing new mandatory minimum sentences for existing crimes of violence.

The order also directs a thorough evaluation of all grant funding programs currently administered by the Justice Department. About the order, President Trump said Its a shame whats been happening to our great -- truly great -- law enforcement officers, the president said at the signing. Thats going to stop as of today.

While all law enforcement line-of-duty deaths are tragedies requiring swift legal response, Floyds death draws attention to a dangerous discrepancy that directly conflicts with the White Houses efforts to protect those who protect us.

The dangers of working in law enforcement, both in policing as well as corrections, have been nationally recognized and codified with the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004, a federal law enacted by President George W. Bush that allows "qualified law enforcement/corrections officers" and "qualified retired law enforcement/corrections officers" to carry a concealed firearm in any jurisdiction in the United States, regardless of state or local laws, with certain exceptions.

Some states, however, choose to get around this law by classifying the members of corrections and certain law enforcement agencies outside the scope of the act. This creates a discrepancy as to what a corrections officer, peace officer, or law enforcement officer is from one jurisdiction to another; which puts officers and those they serve at significant risk.

For example, both state and municipal Corrections Officers in New York and New Jersey are classified as peace officers (law enforcement) in their respective state codes, and have standardized training necessary to comply with LEOSA. Meanwhile, right across the borders of Pennsylvania and Delaware, Corrections Officers are still considered guards in the eyes of state law; as they are in many southern states.

Not only does this hinder the professionalism and retention of corrections officers, but restricts men and women who have exactly the same jobs as their counterparts across the Delaware River from the same protections afforded to them under LEOSA, potentially endangering their lives. LEOSA states that any sworn law enforcement officer (with the authority to make arrests) in active service, and any retired officer serving a total of ten years service as sworn law enforcement has the right to interstate firearms carry.

Instead of embracing this law, numerous agencies have created elaborate ways to circumvent it. For example, a myriad of agencies refuse to issue retired identification cards to members who leave after the ten year requirement, giving those members no way to prove they are LEOSA eligible.

Even more of an outrage is that numerous police and corrections agencies will not arm or train their officers with respect to their titles. In New York, numerous police agencies within the city are unarmed despite their state authority as peace officers to make arrests. This includes the NYC Hospital Police, who polices a city hospital system in where violent crime victims are taken, drug-seeking behavior is manifested; City University Public Safety and NYPD School Safety officers; among many others. Surely, the murder of Hospital Police Officer James Low in 1999, the presence of gangs in schools and threat of active shooter incidents demonstrate the need for uniformed, sworn law enforcement officers to be armed and operated professionally.

Unfortunately many local political leaders ignore best practices in public safety. This extends beyond New York, where even the Philadelphia School Police; in one of the most violent public school systems in America, are unarmed and have no arrest authority.

Local powers that be continually reject request from officers unions to train and equip them properly. For some jurisdictions, this is merely a budget issue, where agencies dont want to increase the salaries, training and equipment funding to make these officers safe. Some, especially in educational environments, however highlight a disturbing politicization in where leaders have expressed that arming school police results in a ludicrous pathway to corrections because the mere presence of firearms on campus, even on the hip of a uniformed law enforcement officer, creates the feeling that kids are in jail. Meanwhile, officers and kids are at risk from armed criminals because they are not equipped to intervene in an attack.

If states would simply invest in professionalism and training; they can move toward standardization. In 1994, six years before being appointed Police Commissioner, NYPD Detective Bernard Kerik was appointed by Mayor Rudy Giuliani to the New York City Department of Correction as the director of Investigations and by 1998 he was appointed as the Commissioner of the department.

As Corrections Commissioner, Kerik was responsible for the creation of the Total Efficiency Accountability Management System, the development of a nationally-recognized gang intelligence unit and database, and a reduction of inmate violence by a whopping 93 percent from 1995 to 1999.

Similarly, overtime spending decreased 45 percent from 1995 to 1999 and the uniform sick rate dropped for the same period by 25 percent; all during a period in NYC history when the inmate population rose by 25 percent. What Kerik showed the national corrections and law enforcement communities was that when you train, equip and manage corrections officers like professional law enforcement officers; facilities will operate accordingly saving both the lives of officers and inmates alike.

For an off-duty Pennsylvania Corrections Officer to be arrested in front of his family for carrying a weapon across the bridge in New Jersey because Pennsylvania classifies corrections officers differently than New Jersey does is legally unfair and puts officers at risk. For a school police officer in Philadelphia, PA to be completely unequipped and without authority while school police officers in rural Clarksdale, Mississippi are sworn and armed makes no sense; as the value of our childrens lives is no more valuable in Mississippi as it is in Pennsylvania or New York.

While our President and federal lawmakers have been diligent in their efforts to protect law enforcement; they need to legislate a standard for the authority and use of force capabilities of what a law enforcement officer is. If states like Delaware were to follow the best practices of New York and professionalize their corrections department; then they can honor the life of Sgt. Floyd by protecting the safety of their officers and preventing future loss of life.

A. Benjamin Mannes is a national subject matter expert in public safety and regular contributor to The Hill. He serves as a member of the Pierce College Criminal Justice Studies Advisory Board in Philadelphia and is a governor on the executive board of InfraGard, the FBI-coordinated public-private partnership for critical infrastructure protection. His writing has appeared in the Washington Times. Follow him on Twitter @PublicSafetySME

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Australians are losing big on pokies. Picture: Marc McCormack

WERE supposed to be the lucky country, but a scary graph proves Australia is a nation of losers.

Gambling has become so prevalent in the Great Southern Land that weve taken out the dubious gong of the nation with the highest losses per capita, dwarfing the casino hub of Singapore.

An analysis by The Economist reveals that Australians lose more per person than any other country in 2016, an average $1292 ($US990) thats averaged out across the population, not just gamblers.

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By comparison, the United States home to the glittering punters paradise of Las Vegas lost less than half that amount.

To the general public, Australia hardly leaps to mind as a gambling hotbed, yet industry insiders know it is far and away their most lucrative market, the Economist reported.

Its analysis is based on data from H2 Gambling Capital (H2G), a consultancy, which found that Australias betting losses per resident adult were about double the average in other Western countries.

And the reason? Pokie machines.

The losses from the ubiquitous gaming machines found in pubs and clubs across the nation are bigger than the total per capita gambling losses of nearly every other country represented largely because of Australias permissive bet limit rules, which allow punters to lose up to $1498 ($US1150) an hour.

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Date published: Monday 13th February 2017 1:50

Ave a bang on that.

Sky Bet used to have It matters more when theres money on it for their advertising tag line, as though football couldnt satisfy you in itself, and you needed some sort of additional fix to make it matter, to make it enjoyable, to briefly thaw out your frozen soul. It always seemed a pernicious statement, speaking of dull, pointless lives, needing the adrenalin of the threat of money loss or, less likely, the glory of money won.

Who wants to buy into that? As it turns out, a lot of people. Why? Because we live in desperate times, and desperate times lead to desperate lives.

Ave a bang on that.

Although I dont gamble, I do know how addictive gambling is. Eight years ago this month, me and my missus rented a house in Las Vegas for five weeks. We were doing quite well at the time, or at least, we had access to a giant f*ck-tonne of credit. Back then, we were dedicated boozers, and we soon worked out that you got free drinks in most casinos if you sat at a poker machine and pushed enough money into it. Like so many before us, we thought we could balance gambling losses out against free drink. But of course, no matter how much we drank, we couldnt quite manage it.

Like Jonny Wong, we knew we could never win, we were just trying to lose a little more slowly. We could no more hold on to our money than grab mercury. And it went on like this for 36 days. We just couldnt stop. As we drank more and more free liquor, we lost more and more money, but kept pumping more and more in to try and stem the losses. A few big wins deluded you into feeling you were getting close to even. You werent.

So we dug ourselves a 35,000 hole and jumped into it, drunk and screaming wildly into the infinite black velvet desert night sky. Climbing out would take years.

Now looking back, it feels like it was one long period of psychosis (and not just because Winty and the boy Tyers, formerly of this parish, were also there). We shouldve realised that being fully paid-up members of the If A Thing Is Worth Doing Its Worth Over Doing Club, gambling would get its hooks into us and would only let us go once it had cleaned us out, stripped us naked, and left us on our knees in the desert, with only a loaded pistol as a way to solve our problems.

Losing money whilst pished on free tequila and gin feels perversely like a win, especially when youre from a poor background, when in reality, youre just a big fat loser. Yet it was so compulsive.

And because I felt its lure so strongly, I worry about gambling being so pervasive in our football lives. Games arepreceded and followed by TV ads for betting companies. Ten Premier League clubs are sponsored by international gambling firms. The second, third and fourth tiers of English league football are all sponsored by Sky Bet. Listen to talkSPORT and theyre giving you in-game and half-time odds, telling you how much you could win if x,y, and z happens. The same goes for TV: up pops Ray Winstone with pre-match and half-time suggestions for bets to place and encouragement to feel that you are master of your domain; a betting overlord, traversing the globe in search of profit.

Ave a bang on that.

At every single football ad break, the first ad is always for gambling. Betfred, BetVictor, Bet365, William Hill, Paddy Power, Unibet, which is now pitching for the educated middle-class male market (its always aimed at men, it seems) or Coral, with the fat bloke and the blonde woman and that is just a small selection. Theres all those heinous, Ladbrokes Life ads where they try to establish different characters, such as Generous John and The Professor, who just look like idiots that have a horrible existence, their pain only numbed by lager and gambling.

Lad Broke, indeed. Ave a bang on that.

Gambling is a terrible addiction which can ruin lives every bit as comprehensively as any drug you can mainline. And like a confection designed to melt at just the right temperature in your mouth, to make it so deliciously compulsive that you will overindulge, the betting industry knows just how to press our psychological buttons, even offering up ready-made excuses for your losses. The Ladbrokes Life caption, for example: When you win, its skill, when you lose its bad luck.

Wheres the fun in form?, says one of the characters from the Ladbrokes Life adverts. When you know, you know you knowyou know?

This is what we really know: you will lose. Now or tomorrow or later. You will lose. You are, or you will be, a loser.

Ave a bang on that.

Anywhere from 0.5% 3% of the population of Europe has a gambling problem and an addicts most favoured sort of betting is spreadbetting, the exact sort of betting pushed most at us football viewers.

This isnt a harmless bit of fun, even if Kammy does look good dressed as a woman. In fact, its so not a harmless bit of fun, that the industry has had to pretend to care about its punters welfare with vacuous advice such as When the fun stops, stop. Well, frankly, if the fun has stopped, that advice is already too late. Youve already got a problem.

Please bet responsibly, says Ray, which is just as pointless as please drink responsibly on a bottle of vodka. People without a problem dont need telling; people with a problem cant take the advice.

Its just PR. Its faux caring from a vampiric industry.

Ave a bang on that.

Betting used to be something you had to enter a bookies to do. You had to brave the smoke-filled, gadgee crowds to put your money down. Now, its intentionally been made so easy to lose your money that you hardly notice its even happened.

At least in Vegas you know youre on a Fear and Loathing, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test in a Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. You know its not normal life and that this is one big freak out which will end. Yet football betting has deliberately become unremarkable through its persistent omnipresence, the encouragement to gratuitously lose your money made standard, as though its just a natural part of life.

Ave a bang on that.

What is this doing to the quality of all our lives, whether we do or dont gamble? Do the grubby, downmarket values not cheapen all of us? Can we not raise our eyes to the sky and stop staring at the soul-sapping smartphone odds? Are we not about better things than winning or losing money? Surely there are plenty more fulfilling intellectual and emotional stimuli available, without pretending that pointlessly throwing money away is fun.

At least in Vegas we were being social it involved attractive waitresses in skimpy clothing. We laughed, we had the time of our lives, we rocked. By contrast, football betting on a phone seems a desperate, solitary, sad little habit carried out in a Wetherspoons with the piercing screams of a hen party from Seal Sands as a soundtrack.

Compulsive gambling, like compulsive drinking, is clever. It sneaks up on you, tells you youre having a good time, tells you anyone who says you arent is part of the bleeding heart, PC, bedwetter, hand-wringing, do-gooder nanny state. You havent got a problem, or at least not a problem that one more big bet or one more bottle wont fix.

Ave a bang on that.

Thats why footballs addiction to betting is so dangerous. It has put gambling front and centre, has encouraged and completely normalised extreme behaviour, marketing it away as just a bit of fun and banter, as all the while it drums up huge profits by preying on the vulnerable and the poor. This will have actively provoked and fed many thousands of peoples addictions, making their lives worse and worse. And that isnt just pain the gambler alone endures.

When the fun stops, stop? Well, the fun has stopped, but there seems no stopping the takeover of football by the gambling industry, and thats to the benefit of no-one except those who feast on the profits it carves out of its low rent, shallow, debased culture, and still, more importantly, carves mercilessly out of human misery.

Get yer mobile out.

Time to cash out.

Lets all ave a bang on that.

John Nicholson

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This week Johnny goes all Butch. Oooh, get him. No, not like that. My word, it's Ray, young man.

John Terry thinks the 'best' footballers should not have to take full coaching courses. Oh dear...

This week Johnny goes all Oirish, so he does, and wonders if Richard Dunne is the victim of a nuclear explosion.

Club managers 'rest' players because they don't really care if theyre knocked out. It's as simple as that.

This week Johnny goes dahn sarf to the Romford manah, my son. Its only that fackin Ray Parlour, geezer.

Not for his poorer, later albums. Our Johnny is in philosophical mood after Wayne Rooney's record...

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Every couple months or so, the Villanuevas take a road trip.

Lifelong Lubbockite Ida Villanueva and her husband cross the state line into Hobbs, New Mexico, then enjoy a weekend getaway at the casino.

But what if they could just drive down the road?

I would be great, Villanueva said. Were actually driving out of state to deposit money. If we can just do it here, it would be even better.

Casino gambling is legal in most neighboring states, but not in Texas. An exception is the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino in Eagle Pass, which is located on Native American land and not subject to the states gambling laws.

The Lone Star State has seen attempts to change that status quo, but not recently.

It probably wont be a hot topic this season.

I havent heard from Austin anyone who thinks its going to go anywhere this session, state Rep. Dustin Burrows said.

The Lubbock Republican speculates its possible for pro-gamblers to emerge on the political scene later, but has no reason to anticipate those efforts getting very far.

A-J Media did not receive a response from Let Texans Decide, a group that has led a push for casino gambling.

A majority of the Texans A-J Media questioned were in favor of the idea of casinos in their state.

I would love it, said one of them, Yolanda Torrez of Brownfield. The revenue it would bring to Texas would be great, and the jobs it would create would be great. Yes, they need to do it.

A local supporter, Juli Wyatt, agreed, I love the idea jobs would be created.

On the opposition side, folks worry about low-income gamblers losing what little they have.

I would rather not have it, Msgr. Gerry Leatham said.

The area priest Father Gerry, as hes known to his Brownfield parishioners has observed many visitors to New Mexico casinos gamble heavily, despite appearing less than wealthy. Its hard for him not to wonder if theyre spending more than they should.

Not having casinos, were missing out on a lot of tax revenue, he said. But on the other side, a lot of people with very little means would be tempted to gamble. Id rather have it out of our state. Its a tremendous addiction as well.

Burrows is similarly opposed, but only partly on moral grounds he doesnt see casinos as money-makers for local communities. For instance, gamblers arent necessarily pumping extra money into the local economy, but are spending what would be better spent at local businesses.

The companies that came in would be from out of state, he said. They would take all the money from the local economy back to their home state.

And the representative agrees with Father Gerry that money dropped into slot machines and card tables isnt always disposable income some serious gamblers have nothing left for necesseties, leaving government programs to help them get by.

I think theres the concern people would gamble away money they didnt have to spend, he said. I see a big economic drain. Society and governments going to end up spending more on them to take care of it.

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The volunteer Montgomery County Problem Gambling Prevention Coalition next month will begin distributing free calendars created by local students intended to draw attention to problem gambling during National Problem Gambling Awareness Month.

The calendars display the winning entries from local calendar competitions among art students from four schools Wright Brothers, West Carrollton and E.J. Brown Middle Schools and Ponitz Career Technology Center who created artistic posters with problem gambling prevention messages to be used as calendar pages.

The highest-rated poster was selected as the calendar cover, and 12 other posters were chosen for each month of the year.

The calendars feature the same images but come in two varieties: Fine Arts, created by middle-school kids using techniques such as sketching or drawing with crayons, colored pencils or markers, and Graphic Arts, created by students at Ponitz using computer software programs such as Illustrator and Photoshop.

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Geelong defender Harry Taylor has become the second high-profile AFL player to raise concerns about the prevalence of gambling advertisements, saying he is worried about the impact it has on children.

"I've got three kids at home and when my eldest can name a lot of the ads on TV, that is a bit of a worry," the 204-game veteran said.

"[It's] certainly something that we need to keep talking about and educating people about."

Taylor's comments follow Western Bulldogs defender Easton Wood, who posted his views on Twitter last Friday, saying gambling advertising was "out of control".

"The obvious issue here is the effect this has on children every time we pull on the boots," he said.

"The big question is do we think the normalisation of gambling particularly to kids is acceptable in this day and age?"

Taylor said education was vital.

"It's not as simple as just cutting them [betting companies] out of the AFL, I certainly understand that," he said.

"But more education around gambling in general is a really, really important part of what our society and AFL players need."

The league currently has a sponsorship deal with Crownbet worth about $10 million a season, while other bookmakers pay broadcasters millions for advertising.

The ABC's Media Watch program last year reported the AFL's broadcast partner, Channel 7, aired 21 gambling advertisements on Grand Final Day in 2016.

Gambling researcher Dr Charles Livingstone from Monash University said the players concerns were well-founded.

"Gambling advertising reaches an awful lot of young people and it also induces young people to think gambling has become part of the game and you can't really be a good supporter unless you've had a punt on the game," he said.

"That's very dangerous the more you bet, the more exposure you have to gambling, the greater the risk you're going to end up with a gambling habit."

He said players speaking out could be a catalyst for the AFL responding to the issue.

"What they're calling out is the hypocrisy of the league in promoting gambling on the one hand, but then saying to the players that they need to be careful about it."

An AFL spokesman said the league had done what it could by curbing advertising at venues, but said TV advertising was a matter for the Federal Government.

Last week, the Government knocked back a push from Labor and cross-bench MPs to phase out gambling advertisements in live sport.

A statement from the Communications Minister, Mitch Fifield, said the Government was aware of community concern about the issue, but shifted responsibility onto the broadcasters.

"Broadcasters have a responsibility under the co-regulatory framework to ensure that their advertising meets community expectations," it said.

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