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Police officers regularly attending the Nanakuli-Maili Neighborhood Board meeting are asked what they are doing to rid the community of its many illegal gambling rooms. But Patty Kahanamoku-Teruya, chairperson of the board and a board member for the past 29 years, is not satisfied with their answers. "Every month since gambling came big time in our…

This is the second installment in a new series, " Rolling the Dice," which is taking a deeper look at the perennial question of whether gambling should be legalized in Hawaii. On any given night on Oahu, the Honolulu Police Department's Narcotics and Vice Division is keeping tabs on dozens of illicit gambling rooms scattered across the island in…