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[ABC News Announcer] Here's what
Wal-Mart did not want to show. As early as 1994, as you can see in
this internal document, a Wal-Mart study showed that 80% of crime at
Wal-Mart locations occurred in the parking lot. And when the
company added roving patrols at several sites, the crime rate dropped to
as low as zero.
[Local 6 News Brief, News Announcer] A
district judge in Beaumont tonight is fining Wal-Mart stores $18
million.
[Local 6 News Brief, News Announcer]
Wal-Mart Sanctioned. James Judge Mehaffy is sanctioning Wal-Mart
for what the Court believes was a pattern of deception that involves the
case of a southeast Texas woman who was sexually assaulted and raped in
the parking lot of Wal-Mart. The Court found that Wal-Mart did not
disclose that it had conducted a safety study, a study that found if
Wal-Mart would put employees in golf carts patroling its parking lots,
crime there would drop to zero.
[News Announcer] Judge Sharolyn Wood
heard a case against Wal-Mart in Houston, Texas, in 1999, involving an
assault in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
[News Announcer] She says that in 17
years on the bench, and over 25,000 cases, she's rarely seen such
flagrant abuse of the system.
[Judge Sharolyn Wood] It was very
disturbing to see such an intentional course of conduct. It was
corrupt.
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