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BUSTED: The FBI credits new communications and tracking devices with reducing local bank robberies 14% last year. But sometimes you don’t need technology to get your man. . . . A Buena Park detective once showed his badge to a man suspected of stealing a lawn edger, and the man instantly confessed to robbing an S&L; 33 minutes earlier. . . . In Anaheim, a different robber flashed a holdup note but had it returned with an apology: “I’m sorry, sir, we are not a bank anymore.” The bank had failed two months earlier.
O.C. Bank Robberies Officials credit increased law enforcement with the drop in heists. 1989: 225 1988: 300 1987: 352 1986: 285 1985: 197 Source: California attorney general
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