should Wal-Mart have to pay an impact fee to the community if it brings crime to the area?

Question

I live in Metro West Orlando used to be wonderful very very little crime but since the super wal-mart was built the crime has sky rocketed . its not safe to live the life we had before the wal-mart .you can't even go golf without your side arm .....

i like wal-mart its a good place to buy toys ,grocerys, paper products and cosmetics .we wanted the store its orlando the roads can handle it the number one concern when walmart moves in is traffic or at least that is how it was explaned to us .nobody thought that people would come from bad areas like they did
why wouldn't they come to shop and relize this is the place for crime you can't steal from people that don't have and metro west is a have neighborhood . i came out of wal mart as i walked to me car i saw a black guy leaning on my car so i was uncomfortable now not the he was black but that he was leaning on my car like he was waiting for me . so i passed my car went acrossed back to the front of the store called the cops told them they came to check it out soon as the cop walked up on the guy he took off /was caught w/9mm hand gun and felony record the cop said that i did the right thing because he was sure the guy wasn't waiting to ask me for the time !

Answer 1

This sounds like a non-sequitir conclusion. Can you demonstrate how the Wal Mart caused crime to come to the area?

Answer 2

Can you prove that it was specifically Wal-Mart and nothing else that brought all the crime to your area?
I live in Clermont. West Orlando is growing by leaps and bounds. It was more than the building of a Wal-Mart store that brought crime there. There is a Wal-Mart just down the street from where I live, but it has not contributed to a rise in crime.

Answer 3

Walmart DOES attach crime simply because THEY ALLOW it to happen in their stores! They will NOT try to stop a shoplifter if what they are stealing is under $25. I used to work there and allll the do is ASK the shoplifter to LEAVE! But they ALWAYS return! ALWAYS! It took MONTHS for me to get 3 kids banned from the store! And they were stealing prepaid cell phones! 100s of them!!! and those realistic bb guns and BBs. I cant tell you how many times they have ran out of the store with something in their hands! ONLY to come back the next day and the next and the next! also, there was one woman who was about to steal a WHOLE HAM! but it slipped from between her legs and fell on the floor! YES she was hiding it between her legs! Instead of ebing arrested, she was asked to leave. PLUS people use those pink labels that are put on items that are going to be returned or xchanged to put on items they HAVENT paid for so they can walk out with them. :-D annnnnnnnnnnnnnd some even wait till there is NO greeter at a door and just walk right through with BIG screen TVs or computers! ALL of that comes out of my bonus! :-(

Answer 4

You can't totally blame society or Wal-Mart for the crime, people need to take responsibility. If you do the crime you do the time.
That's why our country is free, we as citizens have the right to do and choose the things we do. So if people break the law then the privilege of "freedom" goes away. That's their own fault.

Answer 5

Hmmm.. That is an interesting question. I've never heard of an "impact fee". Wal-Mart would find a way to get out of it, just like they do everything else!

Answer 6

Walmarts attract this to a neighborhood because of their hiring practices. Walmart should pay for the additional cops.

Answer 7

wow. well I would say you guys should have really looked at what it ment to bring walmart into your area.

Answer 8

maybe your community shouldnt have voted to place a walmart there and no they shouldnt have to pay an impact fee..........

Answer 9

yeppers