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Increase i in U.S. bank robberies |

There's a ‘virtual epidemic

of them in New York City.“

But even bank tellers in peaceful Portland, Oregon are. getting more, stickup artists at their windows these days. Bank robberies, like inflation, are on the rise in the U.S.

The FBI predicts there ‘will be an increase of 13 percent in bank holdups this year alone and lots of the finger-pointing is at the sad shape of the economy.

“It’s definitely tied to the economic~ situation,” Gene Scrum, head of

security for the Cleveland ©

Trust Co., Ohio’s largest bank. “As the economic situation worsens, bank robberies seem to increase.”

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In Raliegh, N.C., however, FBI agent Herbert Monahan Jr. scoffs at such theories: “Most people who sob banks don’t work, they rob banks for employment.”

The number of holdups is running well ahed of last year and the FBI expects more than 6,000 bank robberies will occur by Sept. 20, the end of the current fiscal year. That compares with 5,300 bank holdups in fiscal 1978.

In New York City, more than 450 robberies were seported through July alone, when a one-month record of 125 holdups was set. In fact, on one day early this month, 14 banks were held up. In all of 1978, there were only 358 bank robberies.

“Usually an increase like this will fit in with a secession for economic slowdown,” _ said special agent Joseph MacFarlane of the FBI's New York office. “In 1975, we experienced the same thing.” ;

' FBI officials in Portland said bank robberies have increased dramatically in the past two years. There have been 69 holdups so far this gear and 95 in 1978. In 1977, there were only 62 for the entire year.

Some bank officials and law enforcement authorities say the increase in the number of bank branches nay be almost as important a factor as the recession. There are now 90,000 bank Wfices in the nation, xompared to only 67,000 sranches in 1973.

“The branches fre being __

wit in the most convenient

atract customers,” said FBI pokesman Dave Cassens at he agency's national wadquarters in Washington, dC. “If it’s convenient for a usiomer to get in and out, 's going to be easy for the obber as well.”

Many large cities report ‘0 «increase in holdups. ‘olice in Boston, ‘hiladelphia, Pittsburgh and Vashington, D.C., said the amber of bank robberies "iS year is at, or below, the tte in recent years.

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