Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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In Las Vegas, the casino is always watching — and yet it missed Stephen Paddock

The casino hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, with all their glitzy delights, aren't just palaces of distraction. They're miniature surveillance states.

A typical facility might be armed with thousands of cameras, which watch gamblers as they enter, while they play and when they leave. The footage is stored as potential evidence and monitored by internal security forces who are prepared to dispatch a response within moments in case of problems.

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