took the day >>kris van cleave off -- chris vanderveen is the funniest guy on the planet. >> consumer reports already generates a lot of interest. >> that is hysterical. i do believe in the consumer reports strongly, but of all the consumer reports i've seen on 9news that far outweighs any of the ones i've done. i'm alone, petrified. >> willing to stand out in all conditions, trustworthy. >> thank you. it's been a great ride. >> why do you need to drag me up into this? >> the tear duct factor, tune in tomorrow. i'll tell you what. >> i have shed the tears. >> you're done. that's what i'm counting on. even if it gets partly cloudy, it's kind of a -- >> let it go. move on. we're getting e-mails on your consumer reports. >>> with all the warm weather people are starting to experience -- by the way, let me mention quickly in a moment i have some never before seen photos of mark and kim from i think almost 30 years ago. >> that's great. and people are starting to experience early allergies. kim and i are sniffling today. >> sneezing all morning. >>> perhaps you've been walking around with

more importantly the total number of calls to police from our area walmart has attention from chris vanderveen, walmart is a busy spot for police. >> that the kind of thing on par with homeless shelter and drug deals, put that stigma aside, walmarterize busy, lots of volume-- walmarts are busy, lots of volume, they have low-level crime. by adding the calls up, the walmart on west colfax, it averaged last year 3.7 police calls a day. that made it the busiest address for police in that entire city. we polled a lot of cities about walmarts and how often the police departments respond to the stores. lakewood told us after hearing about our data, it just might be time to sit down with walmart and come up with a better solution. >> definitely a concern, public safety is our number one and we want to make sure all businesses are good neighborhoods to our neighborhoods. >> do you think they could be a better neighbor? >> i think there are things we can work on with them. >> it is not just lakewood, we heard from a lot of other cities that have data that we will share with you at 9:00 and 10:00, we wil

have already used the law in defense of a bloody prison killing. 9wants to know investigator chris vanderveen is with us now. a lot of interest in changing the law. >> there certainly is or maybe a tweak in the law passed unanimously out of the statehouse committee this afternoon. since 1985 colorado homeowners who kill intruders have been protected by this particular law, but last year we learned a sterling correctional facility were able to use make my day as a defense in the stabbing death of cleveland flood. wounds. since then prosecutors in two haven't been able to bring cases against prison assault and at least one other homicide. the key here is the wording of make my day. it says lethal force is okay when someone threatens your dwelling. so can a prison cell be a dwelling? >> i think that it was preposterous to believe that ail prison cell or jail cell could ever be viewed as a dwelling. so i think it came as a shock to all the district attorneys and the public. >> that's not your house. there's no real estate agent you get when you move into your cell or move within the prison system

as 9wants to know chris vanderveen discovered few places come close to compare doing wal-mart's reliance on officers. >> reporter: where crime goes notoriety follows. it is inevitable and some places are more notorious than others of denver civic center park, for example, 760 police calls last year alone. that's not good, but it's still miles away, a place of low prices and high crime, 896 calls to be precise. >> i just didn't think nothing like that would ever happen to me. >> reporter: one of those calls involved a 71-year-old woman. >> it was a real quick robbery. >> reporter: named elnina lamply. >> grabbed me from behind, from behind like from the back of me he grabbed me. >> assaulting and robbing a woman in a wal-mart parking lot on monday. >> reporter: grabbed thousands of her just cashed tax refund check. how much money? >> well, $5,000. >> reporter: denver's stapleton neighborhood isn't exactly a hotbed of criminal activity. >> shop lifter call at wal- mart. >> reporter: but last year it was home to the third most frequently visited address for denver police. by far the biggest