{"id":272622,"date":"2023-08-26T05:05:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T05:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272622"},"modified":"2023-08-27T07:49:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T07:49:24","slug":"memphis-walgreens-stores-using-classical-music-to-deter-vagrants-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272622","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Walgreens Stores Using Classical Music To Deter Vagrants, Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leif Le Mahieu \u2013 The Daily Wire Aug 25, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

To deal with vagrancy issues and petty crime, Walgreens stores in Memphis<\/a> have installed speakers to loudly play classical music in the parking lot.<\/p>\n

The tactic, which has been used in Chicago and Los Angeles, is intended to deter loitering from homeless people and others, who sometimes harass customers. In Memphis, groups of about 10-15 people were loitering around in one of the Walgreens parking lots before the initiative was started, according<\/a> to Fox13.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt various locations, we have implemented a recorded music loop that plays outside of the store to help deter loitering on the premises. We take steps to ensure the music is only loud enough for the immediate area around the store and cannot be heard by residents in surrounding neighborhoods,\u201d Walgreens said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The music is being played at several Walgreens locations throughout the crime-plagued city through a mobile camera and speaker system. At one location, the music can be heard from across the street, WREG\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some city residents have enjoyed the music while others have said that it gets annoying.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody else listens to hip-hop, pop, rock and everything else,\u201d Chris Worsham, who listens to the music while at his bus stop, told Fox13. \u201cClassical? Yeah, I don\u2019t think they\u2019ll stick around too long and try to Memphis jerk on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another person said that the music was getting annoying.\u00a0\u201cI thought, \u2018Oh there is a band playing and they\u2019re really good.\u2019 Then, the next day, I was like, \u2018They\u2019re still playing.\u2019 And later that night, they\u2019re still playing,\u201d said Cameron Cooley, who works nearby, said. \u201cI understand why they are using the music, but it\u2019s the same key all day, the same music. It can be a deterrent and it definitely deters me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Memphis has consistently ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in America, and has seen property and violent crime increase in the last year. Its murder rate is in the top ten worst in the U.S.<\/p>\n

The strategy for deterrence using classical music has also been used by Walgreens stores in Chicago and\u00a0the Los Angeles Metro, which started playing<\/a> classical music at a downtown subway station in April.<\/p>\n

The Metro\u2019s operations and security team worked with law enforcement to play symphonies, concertos, and piano sonatas by composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, and Vivaldi, in the Westlake\/MacArthur Park Metro station starting in January.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proof that music has charms to soothe the savage beast?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":272621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272623,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272622\/revisions\/272623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/272621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}