9 P.M. (TNT) MEMPHIS BEAT Hendricks (Jason Lee) and his team try to crack a series of safe robberies that may have been carried out by a burglary ring that went on a crime spree a decade earlier.
The real "project" crime of that decade was the Knightsbridge safe deposit robbery in 1987, which had many of the features of the Hatton Garden robbery: safe deposit boxes burgled, wild speculation on the amount stolen – £30m?
In return, they are safe from robbery, which is common on the streets outside, and from arrest.
There was nothing unusual about the fact that the defendants had opened a safe before the robbery, the lawyers said, and there was no way to know what was in the boxes and trays that were removed and replaced.
The Knightsbridge safe deposit centre robbery in 1987 was masterminded by an Italian, Valerio Viccei, and an estimated £25m was stolen, although there is no exact knowledge of how much was in the boxes.
His career choices included gun running for Haile Selassie, safe breaking, burglary, robbery, forgery, fraud, and smuggling.
One of the strictures of the old Motion Picture Production Code was that "methods of crime should not be explicitly presented" and that in particular, "theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc., should not be detailed in method".
"Methods of crime should not be explicitly presented," according to the code, which was adopted in 1930 and further stipulated that "theft, robbery, safe-cracking and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc., should not be detailed in method".
As Christmas shoppers strolled outside, the gunmen forced store employees to strip rings, necklaces and earrings from window displays and pull more out of safes – a brazen robbery that took place in the presence of security guards and security cameras in one of Paris' toniest shopping locales.
Should we really be sending officers out to find small amounts of cannabis, or should we ask them to focus on providing safe streets, responding to robberies, and supporting communities suffering from repeat victimisation?
