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Even though a civilian is three times as likely to be caught in the middle of a convenience-store stickup as in a bank heist, bank crime is a big image problem for both cities and banks. Memphis, Tennessee, where bank robberies doubled last year, has set up a task force to fight the trend. In Orlando, banks have banded together to share security costs and put up a $90,000 reward. And banks everywhere are rethinking design and location factors that make branches not only consumer friendly but robber friendly as well, such as their being scattered along freeways...
Lynn, Massachusetts -- After $4,466 was stolen from the Equitable Cooperative Bank in February, the robber was tracked down minutes later in his getaway car -- a hailed taxicab. Identification was made easier by the fact that the criminal was still wearing the mask he used during the stickup...
Right now most black criminals are stuck in entry-level positions with little hope for advancement. The nation's prisons are brimming with young blacks convicted of crimes that bring puny financial rewards and huge penalties. A typical convenience-store stickup yields only $402, but armed robbers, once convicted, serve an average of 41 months pumping iron in a tough maximum-security prison. That translates to about 30 days in prison for every stolen dollar, which any M.B.A. knows is an unacceptable balance between profit and risk...
...opened a high-tech- crime office with a dozen agents in San Jose, California, to clamp down on chip thefts. Among other things, the agents have found a rising threat of heist-related violence. "We're seeing more weapons being used," says special agent Rick Smith. In one stickup a robber put his gun to a chip retailer's head and pulled the trigger, but the weapon failed to fire. "No one's been killed yet," Smith says, "but it's going to happen...
...Goodwin was right; the inner city is a jungle. But so are the corporation, the newsroom and the White House staff. The language of trial lawyers or bond traders in full testosterone fury is as bloodcurdling as any mugger's. When it comes to social carnage, the convenience-store stickup can't compare with a leveraged buyout, trickling-down unemployment, depression, anger, alcoholism, divorce, domestic abuse and addiction. I'd like to see white men with suspenders and cellular phones tested for the greed gene. The genomes of presidential candidates should be a matter of public record...