Because they will not be prosecuted by the district attorney. Whether we kick them out, tell them they can’t come back, whether I put them in handcuffs and take them down to the county jail-there is no difference. I probably have already kicked out eight or nine people and I’ve recovered a thousand dollars worth of stuff alone off of that.
I’ve kicked out… I’ve been here since 9 AM today. Even if they’re making 25% profit, the stealing takes that down to zero.”Īsked if the presence of armed, uniformed police officers had any deterrent effect on thieves, one officer was blunt in his assessment. “This store does between $80,000 to $120,000 in sales every day. (The Globe is redacting the officers’ names because of critical remarks made about Mayor London Breed and District Attorney Chesa Boudin that could potentially endanger their jobs.) “That’s $25,000 that walks out the door on average between 9 and 6 every day.” “This store loses $25,000 a day to shoplifting,” 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 “the five stores slated to close had fewer than two recorded shoplifting incidents a month on average since 2018” (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) A homeless man at the Target on Mission Street lowers his pants and loads them with goods on Oct.
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