FBI Releases Bank Robbery Statistics
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Posted: 1:34 PM Jul 23, 2008
FBI Releases Bank Robbery Statistics
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released its bank robbery statistics from 2007.
Reporter: Meredith Stancik
Email Address: stancik@kbtx.com
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released its bank robbery statistics from 2007.

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It appears robbing banks is a very lucrative business.

The statistics show in just one quarter, robbers made off with $23 million 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.

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.


Latest Comments

Posted by: Anon on Jul 24, 2008 at 11:24 AM

Are they trying to say "Crime dont pay"?
Posted by: citizen wants Location: news on Jul 23, 2008 at 04:51 PM

whats happening with the helen mayfield trial going on now.
Posted by: mike Location: arcadia, calif on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:57 PM

FBI has billion$ computer but can't say what happened in June of 2008?, 2007 was 7 months ago.
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