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Looking up the stats, there were 1,788 bank robberies in 2020. There's probably an SOP to robbing banks by now, and a SOP to dealing with them.

Tellers are trained to be very polite to bank robbers, which throws them off. Most bank robberies don't even involve a gun right away. They're written notes asking for smaller amounts of money. The clearance rate is 60% which means about 40% don't get caught.

However, before anyone sets down this path, you should probably consider that it might be easier to make $100k just working at a bank.



> might be easier [...] just working at a bank

Reminded me of this Key & Peele sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYYOUC10aM

    Robber 2: So how do we get the money?
    Robber 1: That's the beauty of it, bro. They deposit the money into our bank accounts, week after week, month after month. They're not even gonna know they're being robbed! And then 20-30 years later, we walk out the front door like nothin' even happened.




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