drugs, drinking, strip clubs, gangs.) San Francisco (organized crime, gangs, drugs, and prostitution) Florida Miami (gangs, organized crime, drug trafficking, prostitution, drinking, political and police corruption, scams, strip clubs) Illinois Chicago (organized crime, political and police corruption) Kentucky Newport is the first city within North America to be coined the title due to its role in prostitution, gambling, gangs, gunplay, racketeering, and many others. Nevada Las Vegas (gambling, bookmaking, easy marriage, easy divorce, organized crime, prostitution [however, prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas and Clark County], strip clubs, cabarets, clubbing, 24-hour liquor sales [as in all of Nevada]; quote: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."). In former days it was known also for organized crime and police and political corruption. Reno; (gambling, drinking, strip clubs, clubbing, easy marriage, easy divorce, prostitution [however, prostitution is illegal in Reno and Washoe County] 24-hour liquor sales [as in all of Nevada]). New Jersey Atlantic City (gambling, bookmaking, organized crime, drinking, prostitution, clubbing, and strip clubs) (Known as the World Famous Playground) (In the old days it was known also for organized crime, police corruption, and political corruption). New York New York City formerly known for out of control crime, Times Square's sex shops and prostitution and barely hidden drug trade and citywide gangs, including many Mob families and police and political corruption. South America Brazil Rio de Janeiro (male & female prostitution, scams, notorious prison system, police corruption, political corruption, drinking, drugs, favelas, gangs, clubbing) Colombia Medellin (police corruption, prostitution, drinking, drugs, gangs, clubbing) Venezuela Caracas (scams, prison system corruption, police corruption, political corruption, prostitution, organized crime, drinking, drugs, slums, gangs, robbery, clubbing, drug trafficking, violence) Oceania Australia Kings Cross, New South Wales – A historically notorious inner-city of Sydney, although this reputation is outdated with the imposition of new lockout laws in February 2014 changing the character of the area dramatically, and arguably eliminating the only "sin city" in Australia. (Prostitution, brothels, gambling (illegal and legal), organized crime, bikie gangs (to an extent), police corruption, drugs, strip clubs, drinking, excessive, drunken and random violence.) New Zealand Auckland Former Sin Cities Asia China Shanghai – 1920s and 1930s (organized crime, opium dens, gambling, police corruption, political corruption, prostitution) Europe Weimar Republic Berlin – 1920s and early 1930s (prostitution, numerous cabarets, decadence in general) Monto, Dublin – (prostitution, crime) North America Canada Montreal, Quebec, which earned a reputation for vice through American tourists