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Bank robbery is still a very lucrative business.
The FBI just released stats from 2007 that show in just one quarter, robbers made off with $23 million in cash and cops recovered only $10 million of it.
More than 1,500 banks and other savings institutions were robbed in three months of 2007. An amazing number of crimes have not been solved. The FBI says:
Investigation to date has resulted in the identification of 718 (37 percent) of the 1,959 persons known to be involved. Of these 718 identified persons, 310 (43 percent) were determined to be users of narcotics, and 154 (21 percent) were found to have been previously convicted in either federal or state court for bank robbery, bank burglary, or bank larceny.
Here are some interesting facts from the FBI site:
- Robbers like to pull a job on Fridays more than any other day.
- Branch offices get hit the most -- by far.
- The person most often killed in a bank robbery is the robber himself. Bank robbery deaths are very rare: only five deaths nationwide in the entire year and four of them were robbers.
- The bank robbery capitals of the country are California, followed distantly by Florida, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
CORRECTION: This post originally misstated the time period covered by the FBI report.
Yep--that is the standard response--and see where it is getting...
