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- <text id=90TT1382>
- <title>
- May 28, 1990: Business Notes:Crime
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 28, 1990 Emergency!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- CRIME
- One Bag of Cash, Please
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Crooked savings-and-loan executives are not the only ones
- running off with loot these days. Old-fashioned stickup men are
- doing pretty well too. Bank robberies in the U.S., which
- declined during the first half of the 1980s, increased to 6,691
- last year, a 23% rise from 1985. Unfortunately, crime often
- pays. Of $50 million taken from banks last year, only 20% has
- been recovered. The most common technique is the tried-and-true
- "note job," in which a robber simply hands a threatening note
- to the teller.
- </p>
- <p> California is the bank-robbery capital of America, with
- Florida and New York as runners-up. In New York City alone, 227
- bank robberies occurred during the first quarter of 1990, a 50%
- increase from last year's pace. "Lots of bank robbers convicted
- in the late 1970s and early 1980s are now back on the streets,"
- explains James Fox, chief of the FBI's New York office.
- </p>
- <p> Not all robbers are crafty. Last year a man who stole
- $2,100 from a Brooklyn savings bank was mugged as he made his
- getaway on foot. He reported his loss to the police, who
- promptly arrested him.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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