Wal-Mart was a huge generator of calls for service in my patrol area, so much so that our county government had hash things out over multiple meetings and eventually write an MOU with them to stop calling us over $20 shoplifting cases.
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RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
“Our business has SO MUCH CRIME INSIDE that the police have special parking” is not a message that makes me want to come inside.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’m doing my part!
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 10 hours ago
It’s 99% shoplifting. But the police in my area don’t use those parking spots anyway, they always park in the fire lane.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Still, they’re having to call the police so frequently that this parking space made sense to someone. Maybe there’s something about their store that needs to change. If a strip club was having to call the police every single day, they’d probably shut the place down.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Wal-Mart is kinda the Mecca of shoplifting; it’s turbo-corporate oligarch despotism so nobody feels guilty about shoplifting from them, they’re usually located central to low income areas, and everyone assumes they don’t have the budget to have a robust loss prevention department (they do; it’s one of the most robust I’ve ever seen).