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Most concerning is that there has been an increase in the levels of violence used during these robberies and the frequency in which a firearm was used. – Michel Moore	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They’re used in the commission of robberies, burglaries, and of course with stolen vehicles. – Julio Gonzales	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think most people have this idea that homicides and assaults are the result of robberies gone bad, and there is a fair amount of that. But actually, a lot of the violence we're seeing during the spike…and that was there before the spike, as well, is really conflicts that develop between individuals. – Volkan Topalli	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Oftentimes, many people who were incorrectly assumed to have been released for whatever reason were actually released because they bailed out of custody based on money bail, and we have seen that in some of the follow-home robberies…defendants bailed out on exorbitant amounts of bail and hundreds of thousands of dollars [beforehand]. – Alex Bastian	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The public outcry appears to have caused the DA to reverse himself within a month, the Feb. 4 letter appears to defang the memo, which gave clear instructions to go soft on many classes of cases, including certain gunpoint robberies and other violent felonies. – Mark Bederow	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The author is basically saying every defendant should be released pretrial no matter the underlying charge, no matter any public safety concerns because all defendants are innocent until proven guilty, focusing exclusively on the criminal and completely excluding public safety and the victim leads to horrible consequences, like the murder of Brianna [Kupfer]. We have also seen the results of ‘cite and release’ all over California with massive smash-and- grabs and train thefts and robberies. So always citing out a person who commits an assault, which is many times violent, is dangerous and against public safety. – Jonathan Hatami	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Focusing exclusively on the criminal and completely excluding public safety and the victim leads to horrible consequences, like the murder of Brianna [Kupfer]. We have also seen the results of ‘cite and release’ all over California with massive smash-and- grabs and train thefts and robberies. So always citing out a person who commits an assault, which is many times violent, is dangerous and against public safety. – Jonathan Hatami	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The majority of Last March is young joyriders. They're not keeping the cars. They're jacking cars to commit another crime, typically more serious robberies or shootings, or joyriding around for the sake of social media purpose and street cred, it's a disturbing trend. – Christopher Herrmann	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Gangs are one component of that, a lot of times when the cars are taken, many of these stolen vehicles are used to commit other crimes. It could be drive-shootings, robberies. – Patrick Lentz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is absolutely tangible proof of fallout from defunding Cleveland Police, defunding Cleveland Police has these types of residual effects – you have a decrease in staffing. So, the less police you have, the less coverage you have. And the less coverage you have, the more crime you have. While some carjacking incidents result in vehicles being sold on the black market to be stripped down for their parts, there's been more of an increase in the Midwest of those vehicles taken in carjacking being then used to commit other crimes, such as smash-and-grab robberies, Verden said. He said other crimes, like home burglaries, are down because more people are home during the pandemic. – Mike Verden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The anatomy of these attacks show they are more aggressive, dangerous and happening more frequently, when I talk to retail loss prevention veterans, the best comparison they come up with is what crime was like in New York in the 1970s. But even then, it was more street robberies and not like retail theft as brazen as this. – Cory Lowe	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was creeping up into the North Side, which is where we lived. … You know, it's a city, so everywhere has its issues, but it's typically one of the safer areas. Carjackings, robberies — just to the point where I didn't feel safe alone outside if it was dark out, it just isn't a good way to live. – Former Chicago resident Lauren Callahan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In the streets of Ecuador there is only one enemy : drug trafficking, when drug trafficking grows so do assassinations and homicides, robberies of homes, vehicles, goods and people. – Guillermo Lasso	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Motives include joyriding and to facilitate anonymity while committing other crimes, to include robberies and shootings. – Superintendent David O. Brown	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Bail reform is not the only problem here. The double-digit increases in shootings, robberies, burglaryand thefts arent the product of any single law or policy, they are all the result of failed leadership and a political culture that denigrates and devalues the work police officers do. – President Patrick Lynch	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Criminal mischief, swastikas, property damage are no different to us than robberies and assaults. They're all victimizing an entire community -- sometimes a world-wide community -- so not being able to get closure for that community is difficult for all of us here, our cases don't just victimize the victim. They victimize a group. – Mark Molinari	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Like the Huntington Bank robbery, the State Bank robberies involved a man wearing a ski mask who took over the entire bank, neutralized personnel, and accessed monies, which were held in the vault or safe. – Larry Stewart	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Carjackings. Armed robberies, Domestics, we did everything city cops did. – John Kotchkowski	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Drive-through robberies and carjackings are two compelling reasons why we need to amend Michigan law to allow a lawful handgun owner to legally carry a loaded and accessible pistol without a CPL. – Rick Ector	added by anonymous 8 years ago
That’s just not the way robberies happen, there was just no reason for a robber to kill her, to get whatever it was they took. – Lisa Soto	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He's been arrested several times for sexual assault, several robberies (and) several burglaries. – Homicide Captain James Clark	Found on CNN 8 years ago
One of the suspects put his gun to a customer's head while demanding everyone to 'get down,' and demanded money from a victim teller. In both robberies the subjects fled the banks with an undisclosed amount of money. – The FBI	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Right now, it’s like the Wild West, stagecoach robberies are going to happen. – Dean Katz	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I think it's really that combination of financial and emotional pressure that causes an uptick in robberies during the holidays. – Doug Johnson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Most concerning is that there has been an increase in the levels of violence used during these robberies and the frequency in which a firearm was used.

– Michel Moore

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They’re used in the commission of robberies, burglaries, and of course with stolen vehicles.

– Julio Gonzales

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think most people have this idea that homicides and assaults are the result of robberies gone bad, and there is a fair amount of that. But actually, a lot of the violence we're seeing during the spike…and that was there before the spike, as well, is really conflicts that develop between individuals.

– Volkan Topalli

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Oftentimes, many people who were incorrectly assumed to have been released for whatever reason were actually released because they bailed out of custody based on money bail, and we have seen that in some of the follow-home robberies…defendants bailed out on exorbitant amounts of bail and hundreds of thousands of dollars [beforehand].

– Alex Bastian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The public outcry appears to have caused the DA to reverse himself within a month, the Feb. 4 letter appears to defang the memo, which gave clear instructions to go soft on many classes of cases, including certain gunpoint robberies and other violent felonies.

– Mark Bederow

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The author is basically saying every defendant should be released pretrial no matter the underlying charge, no matter any public safety concerns because all defendants are innocent until proven guilty, focusing exclusively on the criminal and completely excluding public safety and the victim leads to horrible consequences, like the murder of Brianna [Kupfer]. We have also seen the results of ‘cite and release’ all over California with massive smash-and- grabs and train thefts and robberies. So always citing out a person who commits an assault, which is many times violent, is dangerous and against public safety.

– Jonathan Hatami

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Focusing exclusively on the criminal and completely excluding public safety and the victim leads to horrible consequences, like the murder of Brianna [Kupfer]. We have also seen the results of ‘cite and release’ all over California with massive smash-and- grabs and train thefts and robberies. So always citing out a person who commits an assault, which is many times violent, is dangerous and against public safety.

– Jonathan Hatami

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The majority of Last March is young joyriders. They're not keeping the cars. They're jacking cars to commit another crime, typically more serious robberies or shootings, or joyriding around for the sake of social media purpose and street cred, it's a disturbing trend.

– Christopher Herrmann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Gangs are one component of that, a lot of times when the cars are taken, many of these stolen vehicles are used to commit other crimes. It could be drive-shootings, robberies.

– Patrick Lentz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is absolutely tangible proof of fallout from defunding Cleveland Police, defunding Cleveland Police has these types of residual effects – you have a decrease in staffing. So, the less police you have, the less coverage you have. And the less coverage you have, the more crime you have. While some carjacking incidents result in vehicles being sold on the black market to be stripped down for their parts, there's been more of an increase in the Midwest of those vehicles taken in carjacking being then used to commit other crimes, such as smash-and-grab robberies, Verden said. He said other crimes, like home burglaries, are down because more people are home during the pandemic.

– Mike Verden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The anatomy of these attacks show they are more aggressive, dangerous and happening more frequently, when I talk to retail loss prevention veterans, the best comparison they come up with is what crime was like in New York in the 1970s. But even then, it was more street robberies and not like retail theft as brazen as this.

– Cory Lowe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was creeping up into the North Side, which is where we lived. … You know, it's a city, so everywhere has its issues, but it's typically one of the safer areas. Carjackings, robberies — just to the point where I didn't feel safe alone outside if it was dark out, it just isn't a good way to live.

– Former Chicago resident Lauren Callahan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the streets of Ecuador there is only one enemy : drug trafficking, when drug trafficking grows so do assassinations and homicides, robberies of homes, vehicles, goods and people.

– Guillermo Lasso

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Motives include joyriding and to facilitate anonymity while committing other crimes, to include robberies and shootings.

– Superintendent David O. Brown

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Bail reform is not the only problem here. The double-digit increases in shootings, robberies, burglaryand thefts arent the product of any single law or policy, they are all the result of failed leadership and a political culture that denigrates and devalues the work police officers do.

– President Patrick Lynch

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Criminal mischief, swastikas, property damage are no different to us than robberies and assaults. They're all victimizing an entire community -- sometimes a world-wide community -- so not being able to get closure for that community is difficult for all of us here, our cases don't just victimize the victim. They victimize a group.

– Mark Molinari

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Like the Huntington Bank robbery, the State Bank robberies involved a man wearing a ski mask who took over the entire bank, neutralized personnel, and accessed monies, which were held in the vault or safe.

– Larry Stewart

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Carjackings. Armed robberies, Domestics, we did everything city cops did.

– John Kotchkowski

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Drive-through robberies and carjackings are two compelling reasons why we need to amend Michigan law to allow a lawful handgun owner to legally carry a loaded and accessible pistol without a CPL.

– Rick Ector

added by anonymous
8 years ago

That’s just not the way robberies happen, there was just no reason for a robber to kill her, to get whatever it was they took.

– Lisa Soto

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He's been arrested several times for sexual assault, several robberies (and) several burglaries.

– Homicide Captain James Clark

Found on CNN
8 years ago

One of the suspects put his gun to a customer's head while demanding everyone to 'get down,' and demanded money from a victim teller. In both robberies the subjects fled the banks with an undisclosed amount of money.

– The FBI

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Right now, it’s like the Wild West, stagecoach robberies are going to happen.

– Dean Katz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I think it's really that combination of financial and emotional pressure that causes an uptick in robberies during the holidays.

– Doug Johnson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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