Crime & Safety
Woodbury's Walmart Gets A Lot Of Police Calls: Report
Compared to Target, Woodbury's Walmart sees a wildly disproportionate amount of police calls, a new report finds.
WOODBURY, MN — Compared to Target, Woodbury's Walmart sees a wildly disproportionate amount of police calls there. Shoplifting and theft reports were the most common reasons for police visits last year. In fact, Walmart thefts and shoplifting calls reportedly made up 39 percent of all police calls in Woodbury in 2016, according to analysis by RiverTown Multimedia published in the Woodbury Bulletin.
Woodbury police saw 19 theft calls to the city's two Target stores in 2016. Woodbury's Walmart had 164 of those calls.
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