If I couldn't comprehend the difference between robbery and theft or embezzlement, then I'd buy a good dictionary.
A criminal does not just go into a place and starts shooting up the place just for fun?
Is that a question?
I'd say that bank robbers shoot up the place to get money, eliminate witnesses and suppress resistance. Maybe I'm wrong.
That situation in LA which was a great movie by the way, was caused by armed intervention.
Fascinating! So, the correct answer to increasing bank robberies is... Do nothing! Hell, put out a neon sign advertising the fact. That way, the robbers will just leave their guns home and won't hurt anyone. Maybe we could even bus them to the banks so the low-income robbers would have an equal chance. Better yet, why not just have them sign up for the program over the Internet, and deliver the cash to their door! That's real service.
Why aren't you a criminology professor? You could have the whole country's crime problems solved in a day or two!
Again, why would anyone in their right mind call the police to stop a robbery in progress? In the town I grew up in, which shared it's border with urban Philly, a few of my neighbors were cops who would respond to robberies at our grocery store or bank. They'd be on duty, at home responding to the radio call. The good thing is that they finished their dinner before putting the cruiser into drive. I commend their sensibilities. Now had the calls come in as "shots fired", that's different. No need to force a call into "shots fired"
But it is how it should be. I want each law enforcement officer to spend a day working as safe and injury free as possible. I also feel this way because the proliferation of injury once a cop is threatened or injured becomes exponential toward the public.
Nobody can outrun a radio, database search, credit report, facial recognition program, telephone call, cell phone, video monitor doing a taping, or the clerk at the DMV.