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Chicago area bank robberies pass 2011 level — and it’s only August
Chicago Sun Times ^ | August 8, 2012 | Kara Spak

Posted on 08/09/2012 4:26:27 AM PDT by Zakeet

There’s no Wheaton Bandit, Bomb Lady Bandit or Swine Flu Bandit to blame for the rise in local bank robberies.

Rather, a group of average-looking mopes — likely desperate for cash to fuel drug or gambling addictions — is driving up the number of local bank heists.

The Chicago FBI office has recorded 117 bank robberies so far this year, two more than in all of 2011.

Ross Rice, FBI spokesman, said 2011 was simply “a really slow year.”

“People didn’t rob banks,” he said. “It’s really that simple. Less people robbed banks and we don’t know why.”

Since Monday, three local banks were robbed — one in Bridgeview, one in Northlake and one on Chicago’s South Side.

(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bankrobbery; chicago; chicagocrime; crime

This is not a problem because the Banksters give me boatloads of money ... so I let them steal any money they lose right back.

1 posted on 08/09/2012 4:26:31 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

That fool running Chicago is worse than Bill Thompson


2 posted on 08/09/2012 5:00:46 AM PDT by scooby321 (AMS)
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To: Zakeet
This *should be* no shock or surprise to anyone.

When Banks started opening branches in Supermarkets, like TCF Bank and Jewel Foods in the Chi. Metro Area, I immediately thought:

'Jeez how stupid can you be? These are easy pickings. No teller window, no guard, no security, no nothing. Just a young kid behind an open counter with a money drawer full of cash -- all in a big store full of women who are food shopping. They'll (TCF Bank) be robbed tomorrow.'
Now the one in my Village wasn't robbed 'tomorrow'. It took a few years years, as our crime rate is pretty low for this stuff. But robbed it finally was, this past Spring.

By some Amish 'youth' who got clean away (and we don't have many Amish in our Village).

3 posted on 08/09/2012 5:05:47 AM PDT by Condor51 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: scooby321
*** That fool running Chicago is worse than Bill Thompson ***

What, Rahm Emanuel a 'Fool'!?!?
Are you an anti-Semite or something? /s

The SPLC will be tracking you pretty soon. ;-)

4 posted on 08/09/2012 5:10:22 AM PDT by Condor51 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: scooby321
Oh yes, Chicago values.

Let's see.

A murder rate that makes it the most dangerous city to live in in the US if not the world.

A Bank Robbery rate that could be more than 150% of what it was last year. Any idea of how big a growth since say, 2007?

But by the Emperor, we can not have any fast food franchises whose owner defends his Christian moral values! It violates the Chicago way!

5 posted on 08/09/2012 6:23:27 AM PDT by Nip (TANSTAAFL and BOHICA)
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To: Zakeet

It’ll be more when their favorite son gets back to town next year.


6 posted on 08/09/2012 6:27:58 AM PDT by bgill
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