Target and Walmart: Forensics Powerhouses

A Forensics officer starts to work on a new case. To get into his lab, he must go through a state of the art hand scanner and enter a very distinctive password. As he enters the lab he starts to go over all the video surveillance and the take data within the objects left at the crime scene. Although his case is a serious one, his job certainly doesn't match the part. He is a Target employee.

Many Target superstores are just like the one above, with hidden laboratories inside to solve many various crimes from simple retail crimes that happen in Target to felonies that are given to them by the law bureaus that can't do it by themselves. In fact, Target's own forensics may be better than the own police forensics. This is because unlike the public police department, Target is a private corporation, thus they have no limits on how much they can spend on their forensics team. But the police department does have a limit because it is government funded. Not to mention the fact that police department has loads of cases just flowing. For their forensics team to analyze and focus on one case it would take a very long time to get results back. So on very special occasions, they send their cases to the Target forensics team to have them deal with it. And Target's forensics team is top of the line, Target has spent a lot of money getting good equipment and hiring a very experienced forensics team.They have monitors and surveillance that can look at any store. These Target forensics teams are no joke. Now, you're probably extremely confused, why would Target need a forensics team? Well let's backtrack for a little bit. Well put yourself in the shoes of a CEo of one of the biggest supermarket conglomerates in the world. There is going to be a lot of theft, and a lot of crimes occurring in your stores. However, things have gotten so heated that people have been murdered within a Target store before. In fact there has been a recent crime in 2016 of a murder committed by two brothers in Oakland who have been charged for stabbing a 36 year old man inside a Target store. So as you can see, these crimes aren't to be taken lightly. Thus, Target decided to take matters into its own hands and start to create a forensics team. At first, they were focused on their own retail crimes but once the police caught wind of it they decided to send a few of their own cases. in fact, Target is willing to help solve these cases for free.
 
They've been doing a good job so far, and if you were to go onto Target's website right now you can find a future career in their forensics team. In addition to this, Walmart has decided to jump onto the bandwagon as well with their own forensics team. So if you're ever in Target or Walmart, don't try to sneak that delicious candy bar you want so much. Just pay for the damn thing because their forensics team will probably be watching you as you're reading this.