Re: What would make you believe?

John Schilling <schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Virtually all banks have security cameras, virtually no bank robbers
> actually wear masks, and yet most bank robbers are not captured the
> day after the robbery.  Or ever, except incidentally for some other
> crime.  Security-camera footage is rather less useful than you might
> imagine for identifying random strangers.

Just out of curiosity, do you have a cite for that? I was under the 
impression that bank robbery had a pretty low success rate, long-term. A 
bit of searching turns up this FBI document:

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_02/html/web/specialreport/05-SRbankrobbery.html

It claims a 57.7% clearance rate for bank robbery in 2001, which I 
understand to mean that this is the percentage which resulted in the 
arrest of the robber(s). Of course a lot of these *could* have happened 
after being arrested for some other crime.

-- 
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software