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Is Wal-Mart a crime magnet in the Midlands? A look at the numbers
The State ^ | 7.24.2016 | Glen Luke Flanigan

Posted on 07/24/2016 4:55:25 PM PDT by Gamecock

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To: SSS Two

“Between the start of January and the end of June, 187 of the Camden Police Department’s 1,372 calls were to the Wal-Mart on West Dekalb Street. That means on average, police were called to the store at least once every day.”

six months


21 posted on 07/24/2016 6:15:45 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

“Here in NE Ohio one of our WalMarts became the site of a lively prostitution business in the spacious parking lot.”

That kind of thing is more common now that so many of the old HoJo locations have closed.


22 posted on 07/24/2016 6:21:35 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: Gamecock

I don’t know about the Midlands, but the one in Anchorage is a junky magnet. They like to hang out in the little “park” along Benson avenue.


23 posted on 07/24/2016 6:22:54 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: 1rudeboy

Volume of customers...

My local K-Mart could start a bowling league down their aisles...

You can hardly get into WM parking lot sometimes...


24 posted on 07/24/2016 6:25:47 PM PDT by Popman (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Gamecock

It’s because blacks now believe the laws should not apply to them. Every time cops try to stop criminal behavior by blacks, they are accused of racism. So now there is a free pass to do whatever they want or else they will riot.


25 posted on 07/24/2016 7:08:59 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: LadyDoc

I’m glad Wal-Mart doesn’t “overlook” crime. Every business should have that attitude, even though it’s no longer politically correct.


26 posted on 07/24/2016 7:28:30 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: 1rudeboy

WalMart had $482 billion in revenue last year, Kmart & Sears, combined, $25 billion.


27 posted on 07/24/2016 7:51:06 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: Gamecock

Our Wal Mart pays a ton of property taxes...they pay for the police dept.


28 posted on 07/24/2016 7:52:39 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: 1rudeboy

I think something like 140 million people shop at Wal-Mart every week. With that kind of foot traffic they are bound to have more problems than others. Demographics play a role as well. Meanwhile, K-Mart employees are claiming that the entire company if about to cease operations.


29 posted on 07/24/2016 8:30:39 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Gamecock

The only state in the South to ban open carry, and gut concealed carry (reciprocity with only 13 states) asks why there is crime at Wal-Mart? Hmmm....


30 posted on 07/24/2016 8:51:56 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: FreedomPoster

Depends on the neighborhood if you know what I mean, Raleigh is a burb of Memphis, and the PD have a car there all the time. Just 15 or so miles away in a smaller city of the same county, PD has to be called in. World of difference, but still a lot of shop lifting goes on. With cameras all over a store it’s not hard to spot them.


31 posted on 07/25/2016 6:46:23 AM PDT by GailA (If politicians won't keep their promises to the Military, they won't keep them to you!)
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To: SSS Two

There are only six months (reviewed) because the daily rag here now has very limited resources for local reporting of non progressive stories. I would not put it past the editors to use this story to show how Wally World and the local cops are going out of their way to harass good people.


32 posted on 07/30/2016 4:42:23 AM PDT by pack29172 (Just remember, when seconds count, the cops are only minutes away...)
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