Archive for robberies

Freeze! The Cold Hard Facts on Bank Robberies in 2009

March 31st, 2010

You might think that bank robberies would be on the climb during The Great Recession. But so far, that hasn’t been case. Using official FBI

Convicted Bank Robber Shares Branch Security Insights

November 04th, 2009

[Note: If The Financial Brand covered another industry, we probably wouldn’t spend so much time talking about security. But robbers rob financial institutions because “that’s

Operation Safecatch: A Proactive Approach to Robberies

August 10th, 2009

“SafeCatch doesn’t put bank employees in danger, but it does empower them to make a potential robber think twice about going through with it,” says

Instead of Saying Hello to Robber, Teller Gets Himself Fired

August 05th, 2009

“When the man came into the bank…dressed in a knit cap on one of the hottest days of the year, Nicholson [a bank teller] says

2 Banks Thwart 1 Robber Using Great Service

November 11th, 2008

The would-be thief in this FBI image is a suspect in several bank robberies. The employees working in a Seattle branch of First Mutual Bank

Robbery statistics for Q1 2008

October 28th, 2008

Here’s the FBI’s latest data on robberies of financial institutions for the first three months of 2008. Type of Institution Robberies % Commercial bank 1,399

Freeze! The Cold Hard Facts on Robberies 2006

July 03rd, 2008

Here is the FBI’s official data on robberies of financial institutions, including injuries and deaths for 2006. TOTAL NUMBER OF ROBBERIES: 6,985 Bank robberies: 6,154