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Drug Addicts At Wal-Mart Draining Small City Police Resources

  • Al Norman
  • March 13, 2017
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The city of Tiffin, Ohio (pop 18,000) has a Wal-Mart problem.

???It is a problem, it has always been a problem with the big box stores,??? Tiffin Police Department Chief Fred Stevens told the Advertiser-Tribune newspaper. ???It???s not an anomaly to the city of Tiffin ??? At any place you have a lot of people congregating, you???re going to have a lot of calls.???

Police calls from Wal-Mart in 2016 totaled 231 calls. And the giant retailer is on track to generate another 240 calls this year. Like many of police chiefs across America, Chief Stevens says Wal-Mart is taxing his limiting resources. ???That???s a lot of resources and time,??? he said. ???Arrest times, reports, charges, all that sucks up a lot of the resources for a police department that is handling hundreds of calls a year.???

Stevens believes a lot of the stealing at Wal-Mart are drug related. Addicts steal items, and take them back later for cash, or will sell them on the street.

Wal-Mart admitted to the newspapers that crime rates are a problem. But the retailer???s crime numbers are so high, they generate negative news stories in small towns like Tiffin across the country.

For more stories like this, search this Newsflash database by “crime.”

Her’s the full Tiffin, Ohio story:

http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/news/local-news/2017/03/theft-tops-long-list-of-police-calls-to-walmart-last-year/

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The city of Tiffin, Ohio (pop 18,000) has a Wal-Mart problem.

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Al Norman

Al Norman

Al Norman first achieved national attention in October of 1993 when he successfully stopped Wal-Mart from locating in his hometown of Greenfield, Massachusetts. Almost 3 decades later they is still not Wal-Mart in Greenfield. Norman has appeared on 60 Minutes, was featured in three films, wrote 3 books about Wal-Mart, and gained widespread media attention from the Wall Street Journal to Fortune magazine. Al has traveled throughout the U.S., Barbados, Puerto Rico, Ireland, and Japan, helping dozens of local coalitions fight off unwanted sprawl development. 60 Minutes called Al “the guru of the anti-Wal-Mart movement.”

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