European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 a ii the stars and stripes monday february 26,1990 Sharp increase in Bank robberies baffles officials in new York City by in new York times Bank robberies in new York cily have risen sharply in the last Tew months and the suddenness and Sharpness of the increase has Bank executives and Law enforcement officials baffled. Quot it s scary and bewildering and we won t really know for some time what s behind the said James m. Fox. The director of the Federal Bureau of investigation office in new York City. There have been 129 Bank robberies. 59 of them armed robberies in new York c Ity Between Jan. 1 and thursday according to the latest Fri statistics. In of last year there were 464 Bank robberies in the City including 130 armed holdups. The increase a in an age of silent alarms barriers Between tellers and customers and sophisticated surveillance cameras a follows a marked decline in robberies throughout most of the 1980s. And while officials say the figures do not yet suggest the City is about to return to the robbery rate of the late 1970s. When there were two and three Bank robberies a Day the signs Are ominous enough for them to renew a fibres to solve the problem. Reasons for the increase arc not Clear. Law enforcement officials cite several possibilities the spread of . Temperatures crack addiction decreased attention by the authorities a who in some cases redeployed their forces against crack a Ana the recent return to the streets of some jailed Bank robbers. The Banks hit most steadily Bank officials said Are Midtown Manhattan branches. Most Banks in poorer neighbourhoods have installed Teller windows of thick plastic while Many Midtown Banks eschew them and More robbers Are blending into crowds or hopping on the subway instead of using getaway cars the officials said. Fox said More agents and detectives would be added to the Fri police department joint Bank robbery task Force. In the last few years he said emboldened by its own Success the Bureau and the police department temperatures Leeon led saturday 4am 4pm 46 pc it Adana i Amsterdam c linens i ammo f Btu fun r Bigmeat Fultn t Brussels i co e duty a hit nut i Jerusalem e Lisbon i. Copenhagen. Go of 69 Frankfurt. T 5? 63 London c 39 69 maund t 41 61 Mun it Cut. I 46 67 puts. 40 60 63 rom it 1 46 a prodded by Del 3 2nd weather wig. Tiezen in Bach other Timpe Urei fab Lon m 49 Montreal 67 44 Moscow. 46 x Oslo r 62 36 Toronto 5 70 46 Vancouver s. Supco a by the associated press c Doudy i inc. I run i mow. Fig fog february 23 s4 51 <1 66 x 66 h�6lw 52 it i x 36 <6 34 had shrunk the Force transferring agents and detectives. A needless to say crack has changed everything a Fox said. A Guys arc going into Banks grabbing hostages vaulting Over barriers and waving guns. It s dangerous because they re High and anything can last month he said two robbers in Brooklyn shot and killed by Fri agents when their Holdup failed were found to have heroin in their blood. An Fri spokesman Joseph a. Valiquette said the task Force was formed in 1979 after a a really bad decade for Bank in 1979 there were 928 robberies 319 of them armed robberies. But immediately after the task Force was formed they dropped to 687, including 251 armed ones. The decline continued until 1986 when there were 184 in the five boroughs Only 46 armed. In 1987 there was a sudden Rise leading officials to think that Many stick up men rounded up and jailed in the beginning of the decade were Back out. 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