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    there were an estimated 1,165,383 violent crimes (murder and non-negligent homicides, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults) reported by law enforcement. These crime statistics have a significant meaning to the community because it helps people understand how much crime occurs in their neighborhoods. Robbery, one of the crimes listed, is a popular crime to commit if a person needs fast cash. Robbery is the taking of or attempting to take anything of value from care, custody, or control of a…

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    If I told you that there could be as gripping of a western film as ‘Hell or High Water,’ in today’s pop culture, you would tell me that I was crazy. The stellar performances of two unstoppable bank robbers, Chris Pine and Ben Foster, and a Texas ranger out on his last case before retirement, Jeff Bridges, make this dream a reality. Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster, and Chris Pine star in a revolutionary movie that was created to bring back a culture of western films. It is bound to be a classic western…

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    Anders who is an English professor at a university enters a bank and is a witness to an armed robbery. He irritates one of the robbers so much that he ends up getting shot in the head. The short story bullet in the brain was published by the New Yorker in 1995. The main character in the short story is a man named Anders who is a book critic and has become very complacent with his work. He has not only become bored with his work, but the things surrounding him as well, so much that he finds the…

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    blue bakkie. One of the robbers remains in the car while three disembark. The leader of the robbers, referred to as the boss by his fellow robbers, is armed with a large gun. A robber, wearing an eye patch, indicates that they may proceed with the robbery. Another robber spots the private security guard. The leader, armed with a large gun, threatens to shoot the security guard, Thomas, if he does not stop. The security guard, holding a walkie-talkie, moves behind a parked car. The…

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    The trained shooting in the plains for the first heist. It was the day of the big heist for the young men they rode to the tracks waiting for the train to come, this was their chance to start saving an amount of cash as much as $60,000 this train robbery was there first heist. In the distance you can hear the train screeching as it advanced towards the…

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    to offer. She tells them she wants to go study so that she can be a masseuse. They talk about what changed in her and what are her barriers for and she answered one of them is her mom. They ask her why she committed one hundred and twenty armed robberies if kids had low self-esteem but didn’t do what she did. In the end of the chapter, they let Candace out in a halfway house in Fort Worth where she helped the girls and helped herself…

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    The movies Unusual Suspect and Inside Man similar themes from corrupted cops to deception, and power. Each movie had an unexpected turn that no one saw coming. Inside man Dalton Russell the mastermind behind the bank robbery had all the cops to believe he was robbing the bank but had other motives more important than cash. Unusual suspect Keyser soza was pulling all the strings making a group of thug and cop believed that he was something he was not. In both movies, they display cop corruption…

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    Robberies And Crime

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    Violence and Robbery Towan Cook Georgia Gwinnett College Because robbery is most likely to be carried out by a stranger, robberies can often escalate into the use of violence, due to the fact that the offender has no intimate connection to the victim. Therefore, more than likely the offender may use force to get what they need. Unlike the act of burglar, robbery involves the use of a threat or force to take or obtain items of value such as, money, drugs, weapons, and jewelry. While…

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    different ways, including when Ed would help the people that lived at the addresses on the cards that were delivered to him. In I Am the Messenger, Ed had a purpose throughout the whole novel. Ed’s journey begins when he becomes involved in a bungled bank robbery and helps police capture the robbers dropped…

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    The Longest 10 Seconds of My Life I will never forget where I was in the bank that day when he came in the door. It was nearly 5:30 on a Friday, which meant it was almost the weekend. What made it even more exciting was I did not have to work on Saturday. We had started the preparations for closing so we would be able to walk out the door as close to 6:00 as possible. I had my back turned counting the money one of the floating tellers had just sold to me. It was a very laid back environment…

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