#Immoral ward studio trial#
#Immoral ward studio series#

I probably have already kicked out eight or nine people and IвЂ™ve recovered a thousand dollars worth of stuff alone off of that. IвЂ™ve kicked outвЂ¦ IвЂ™ve been here since 9 AM today. Even if theyвЂ™re making 25% profit, the stealing takes that down to zero.вЂќДЄsked if the presence of armed, uniformed police officers had any deterrent effect on thieves, one officer was blunt in his assessment. вЂњThis store does between $80,000 to $120,000 in sales every day. (The Globe is redacting the officersвЂ™ names because of critical remarks made about Mayor London Breed and District Attorney Chesa Boudin that could potentially endanger their jobs.) вЂњThatвЂ™s $25,000 that walks out the door on average between 9 and 6 every day.вЂќ

вЂњThis store loses $25,000 a day to shoplifting,вЂќ an SFPD officer told the Globe in lengthy, taped interviews conducted this week. Now, in a Globe exclusive, San Francisco Police Department officers revealed that the iconic Target on Mission Street between Third and Fourth Streets will be shutting its doors before the end of the year. (Photo by Ken Kurson for California Globe) Shoppers at the Target on Mission St are greeted by armed and uniformed SFPD. Everyone who has stood in line at a drugstore and watched thieves shove hundreds of dollars of items down their pants knew that Breed was mistaken at best or lying at worst. She attributed the closings to demographic shifts and the Chronicle dutifully reported that вЂњthe five stores slated to close had fewer than two recorded shoplifting incidents a month on average since 2018вЂќ (while acknowledging that few stores bother to report a crime that now routinely goes unpunished). Mayor London Breed challenged that narrative. Last week, after Walgreens announced that five additional outlets in San Francisco would be closing on top of the 17 that already have been shuttered since 2019, the company claimed that changes in both the law and prosecutor attitudes had made it impossible to run a profitable business in the city.

This story has been updated to add comment from a Target spokesman. (Photo by Melody Kurson for California Globe) (In which context, she offers no opinion on possible royal connections to the Profumo scandal, something suggested in Netflix drama The Crow n.A homeless man at the Target on Mission Street lowers his pants and loads them with goods on Oct.

#Immoral ward studio series#

вЂњIt was just a lie, it was not true.вЂќДЇerguson adds that she hopes the series may lead people to look anew at the case and help to correct a miscarriage of justice thatвЂ™s carried down the decades вЂ“ a miscarriage perhaps prolonged by then prime minister John MajorвЂ™s decision to keep secret files relating to the scandal that might otherwise have been made public. вЂњHe wasnвЂ™t a complete innocent, but he certainly shouldnвЂ™t have been charged and subsequently prosecuted for living off immoral earnings,вЂќ says Ferguson.

#Immoral ward studio trial#

As did Stephen Ward, the socialite osteopath вЂ“ and louche voyeur вЂ“ who found himself first dropped by his rich and famous friends, and then facing trial for living off the вЂimmoral earningsвЂ™ of Keeler and Rice-Davies.

However you look at what happened, Keeler paid a heavy price for her involvement in the scandal. Mandy Rice-Davies and Christine Keeler found themselves at the centre of a media storm.