Heroin In Hinsdale,NH: Is WalMart Eating up Police Department Resources

Update 8/18

OK, is Walmart property taxes properly flowing through the selectman office into the police department...such that the police department can fully support Walmart?

Again, the only way we are going to fix this is if we are data driven. Not secret agendas!!!

Update:

"More than 2.4 million Americans were addicted to synthetic pain relievers or heroin in 2014, according to the latest federal survey on drug use and health".

A heavy addicts spends about $200 to $300  a day on heroin.  Think about the crime wave needed to support this addiction. Maybe the total spending by addicts is about a $ 1billion dollars a day. Honestly, are we talking about $365 billion dollars a year heroin tab per year from the USA?

I wonder how much shoplifting at Hinsdale Walmart supports heroin addiction in our area? 

I estimate there are more than 12 million heroin users in the USA. Total of about 15 million users?  

I worked at the Hinsdale Walmart a few years back. I hated working there with how management pushed the conservative ideology. The police were always parading in and out of the store to contend with shoplifters. I got dinged for stealing time at Walmart in their camera'd store wide theft prevention and detection system. I was caught  purchasing snacks for lunch on the clock. This is strictly forbidden.  

When I worked there at Walmart  they was making big bucks over shoplifters. The stores would basically fine the shoplifters. When they caught the shoplifters, they would offer them a deal. Either you pay us $500 to a $1000 dollars on the spot, sign a agreement to never come in the store,  or you are going to jail. It's very time consuming transporting these guys to county jail in Keene from Hinsdale. I image at the police station, they call the court bondsman and he offers them bail. I wonder how many a year end up going to county jail? I imagine these guys got court issues before the shoplifting and the police department is compelled to give them a ride to the Keene jail and facing the court. Is the police station even manned during off business hours? I supposed they got decent cells in the new police building.

Questions I would pose to the selectman is if Walmart is carrying their local tax rates with this police support. Hinsdale is a tiny police force and this site has a lot of customers. Usually Walmart gets locale tax reductions as part of the deal to construct the new store. I wouldn't be shocked if Walmart pays zero or little property taxes as part of the deal to get the SuperCenter into the town.

Does the poorly paid employees have a draw for heroin issues in Hinsdale? The fragile poor employees moved into Hinsdale's slum ghettoes and landlords, thereby intensifying the heroin problem.  You know darling, we need milk and tampons at Walmart, don't forget to pick up the heroin at our  Hinsdale  heroin dealer too. Most of these employees are disabled in on way or another, it a requirement they find work in order to stay on Welfare. It is a hell of a tax write off for Walmart to hire a disabled employee.

The police department would have to be data driven. I doubt this police department collects any data. So they would have to collect the information on all police involvement with Walmart and record it.

The perfect storm with the intensification of heroin addiction in Hinsdale and police needs at Walmart...

Bloomberg:  Walmart’s Out-of-Control Crime Problem Is Driving Police Crazy

According to Walmart Stores executives, it’s all starting to work.

Police chiefs and their officers on the ground say that’s just not so. Ross likes to joke that the concentration of crime at Walmart makes his job easier. “I’ve got all my bad guys in one place,” he says, flashing a bright smile. His squad’s sergeant, Robert Rohloff, a 34-year police veteran who has to worry about staffing, budgets, and patrolling the busiest commercial district in Tulsa, says there’s nothing funny about Walmart’s impact on public safety. He can’t believe, he says, that a multibillion-dollar corporation isn’t doing more to stop crime. Instead, he says, it offloads the job to the police at taxpayers’ expense. “It’s ridiculous—we are talking about the biggest retailer in the world,” says Rohloff. “I may have half my squad there for hours.”

Walmart knows police departments are frustrated. “We absolutely understand how important this is. It is important for our associates, it is important for our customers and across the communities we serve,” says Judith McKenna, Walmart’s chief operating officer for the U.S. “We can do better.”

Questions I would posed to the selectman.

1) How much property taxes a year does Walmart pay to the town?

2) Is the property tax rate ethical and moral compared to the profits they gain in the store?

3) On average, how much money does it cost Hinsdale per shoplifting event (man hours)?

4) When the shoplifter cycles through the courts, they usually get jail time, more likely a big fine and court costs. Does Hinsdale get a proportion of court fines to cover the police cost?

5) Ask the police chief:  how much is Walmart a burden to the police department budgeting?