The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Every single time it was grand. I loved the moment when you announce the stickup and everything suddenly goes brighter and sharper and the world seems to spin faster. You show them the gun and say hand it over and there's no telling what's going to happen in the next tick of the clock.

They said it was going to be about a computer-based bank robbery, and I said, whatever it is you want, I'm there.

And that was when it really came home to me what I was about to do. I was going to rob a bank, committing the additional crime of arson in the process, and if I got caught I'd go to prison.
Well, I thought, go on selling second-hand jalopies for another forty years and maybe somebody'll give you a testimonial and a forty-dollar watch.

Even though we've taken a significant number of guns off the streets and made several arrests for armed robbery, when an armed robber shoots and kills a merchant we really don't have a lot of control of an incident like that.