<br> What is the crime rate of a neighborhood before the Wal-Mart was put into it vs. after?<br> <br> What is the crime rate per store for Kmart, Target, ShopKO, Sears, JC Penny?<br> <br> How many crimes are committed by Wal_mart haters against Wal_mart Shoppers because of the rhetoric spewed by Walmartwatch.com, as was reported on the news last night?<br> <br> If you don't know the answers then your study results are not valid or comparable.<br> <br> I don't see how lower prices on lower quality goods would cause crime. I do see however, Wal-Mart being located in lower income neighborhoods where crime is higher. At least if they are being committed at Wal-Mart, we can catch the criminals because there are cameras everywhere, even in the parking lots. <br> <br> Take Care,<br> <br> _DJA<br><br><b><i>TIM RIGSBY <tim.rigsby@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px;
padding-left: 5px;"> Today, our campaign released the first national study detailing the problem <br>of crime at Wal-Mart store locations called Wal-Mart & Crime: Is Wal-Mart <br>Safe? We requested the official police reports (ie. calls for service) from <br>551 Wal-Mart store locations throughout the U.S.<br><br>The results are shocking and outrageous. In 2004, at just those 551 Wal-Mart <br>stores, police were called to respond to over 148,331 police incidents, <br>including over 2,900 reports of serious or violent crimes:<br><br>1,145 Assaults<br>153 Sex Crimes<br>23 Kidnappings (or Attempts)<br>9 Rapes (or Attempts)<br>4 Homicides (or Attempts)<br><br>Based on this sample, nationally in 2004, we estimate police responded to <br>nearly 1 million reported police incidents at Wal-Mart stores costing <br>American taxpayers $77 million.<br><br>For a complete copy of the report and to view your local police report <br>please go
to:<br><br>www.WalMartCrimeReport.com<br><br>There is no explanation why Wal-Mart, despite knowing it has a high level of <br>crime at some of its stores, has not taken the necessary steps to improve <br>public safety and address the serious threat to customers, employees and the <br>community.<br><br>As early as 1994, Wal-Mart actually conducted its own crime study and found <br>nearly 80% of the crimes were being committed in its parking lots. A 1996 <br>confidential, internal Wal-Mart memo warned, We are now on notice of the <br>violence that is happening on our parking lots in the Houston area.<br><br>And yet, even with horrific examples of violent crimes and even rapes at <br>Wal-Mart stores, Wal-Mart has not publicly adopted a company-wide policy of <br>installing staffed security cameras and instituting roving security patrols <br>at all of its stores. In fact, according to a Wal-Mart official in 2000, <br>Wal-Mart failed to put in roving security patrols at 83%
of its stores even <br>though internal Wal-Mart studies showed these patrols could reduce crime to <br>near zero levels.<br><br>Today, we are sending a letter to Wal-Marts CEO Lee Scott calling on <br>Wal-Mart to immediately take the necessary steps to protect its customers, <br>employees and the community by adopting a nationwide policy to make its <br>stores safer, including: putting in security cameras at all its stores, <br>actually having an employee watch those security cameras and implementing <br>roving security patrols in all of its parking lots.<br><br>As part of this campaign, we call on Wal-Mart to announce this new public <br>safety initiative before Mothers Day, May 14th 2006.<br><br>Please sign our letter calling on Wal-Mart to adopt a nation-wide policy to <br>make its stores safer by Mothers Day:<br><br>http://www.walmartcrimereport.com/letter.html<br><br>You have the power to change Wal-Mart and help build a better America. <br>Please take a moment and
pass our new website www.WalMartCrimeReport.com and <br>our new report, Wal-Mart & Crime: Is Wal-Mart Safe? on to all of your <br>friends.<br><br>Thank you for all that you do,<br><br>Paul Blank<br>WakeUpWalMart.com<br><br>P.S. To download a flyer about the report, click here:<br><br>http://walmartcrimereport.com/crime-flyer.pdf<br><br>" 'Politics is the art of controlling your environment.' That is one of the <br>key things I learned in these years, and I learned it the hard way. Anybody <br>who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted <br>and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid War on the other side of <br>the World -- or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public <br>property -- or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons -- or <br>locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and <br>twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it <br>matters
who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will <br>wish you had voted." - Hunter S. Thompson<br><br>_________________________________________________________________<br>Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! <br>http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/<br><br>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ<br></blockquote><br><p>
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