Oh yeah, let’s try and apprehend these heavily armed bank robber right in the middle of downtown LA! Even though we already IDed them and know the car they’re getting away in and could easily apprehend them later at a more controlled location and NOT IN A FUCKING BUSY CITY BLOCK FULL OF CIVILIANS!!!

Jesus Christ, is Al Pacino like the dumbest fucking police detective ever?

  • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    20·
    1 month ago

    I had heard of this, but didn’t realize, these guys pulled off like five successful heists before this. Apparently they grabbed like 1.6mil in unmarked bills before this went down.

    Damn, I would have fucking retired if I managed to net that much, go to Costa Rica and just live in a shack on the beach bro!

    • spudnik [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      30 days ago

      It wasnt just them either, LA in the 80s and 90s was like the bank robbery capital of the world.

      https://crimereads.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-bank-robbery-capital-of-the-world/

      Los Angeles was on the brink of the greatest bank robbery epidemic ever seen. Between 1985 and 1995 the approximately 3,500 retail bank branches in the region were hit 17,106 times. 1992, the worst year of all, there was an almost unimaginable 2,641 heists, one every 45 minutes of each banking day. On a particularly bad day for the FBI that year, bandits committed 28 bank licks. There were years during that stretch when the L.A. field office of the FBI, which covers the seven counties in the Los Angeles metro region, handled more cases than the next four regions combined…“Of all the bank robberies in the nation over the past three or four decades, at least 25 percent of them have gone down within commuting distance of the soaring white spire of City Hall"