Another day, another bank robbery in Allston/Brighton
By adamg - 3/21/09 - 1:57 pm
Boston Police tweet that the Peoples Federal Savings Bank branch on North Harvard Street in Allston was held up, shortly after noon.
This comes a day after a Citizens Bank branch in Cleveland Circle was robbed.
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Ack!
That's MY bank!
And we were in a PFSB branch at the same time
Granted, the one in West Roxbury, but still.
OK, OK, and when I told the kidlet that it was a good thing we hadn't gone to the Allston branch, she asked:
"Why would we go to the Allston branch?"
Work with me here, kid.
Robbed before?
That seems to be the second robbery at the Allston branch in the past ten days or so. According to a poorly-written item in this week's A-B Tab, it was robbed some time between the 10th and the 16th of March as well:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/allston/news/x108133329/The-week-in-Allston-Brighton-Crime-March-10-16
I just had a brief reaction
I just had a brief reaction of amazement that bank robberies still happen frequently.
Then I had another thought that the first anti-robbery measures that came to mind immediately would discourage some robberies but escalate the violence of those that did happen.
If I owned a bank, I would have physical mechanisms to limit the value of the take, but I'd also make it easy for the robber to get in and out without violence.
hey...is this snark, or what?
The first two sentences in your post about bank robberies were on target, but this:
is something I think is a sad, sad joke.
The trick is to discourage bank robbers altogether.
The main discouragement
The main discouragement would come from the threat of getting caught and punished *after they have left my bank*, when my employees and customers are no longer in danger.
Also, I didn't fully articulate this, but I imagine that the well-known physical limit on the max yield of robbing my bank would reduce the incentive.
The banks don't care if they get robbed
they are fully insured.
They are 10000X more worried of a teller getting hurt and having to pay damages as a result. Thats why they always have tellers just hand over whats right in the drawer. Its usually only a few hundred bucks, sometimes a few thousand.