Poodleshooter
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http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0803/14bankrob.html
Read through the article and notice this excerpt about 2/3 of the way down the page regarding Bank of America locations:
So, let's see, if I carry into a B of A bank, a set of clamshell doors traps me inside? No thanks!
Has anybody seen this security setup? I wonder if they prohibit carry in all of their banks, or if they actually know that people can carry in some states?
Read through the article and notice this excerpt about 2/3 of the way down the page regarding Bank of America locations:
This year, Bank of America Corp. launched its "Greenbelt Project" nationwide. Its measures include mantraps -- two sets of double doors equipped with weapons sensors. If triggered, the doors automatically lock, preventing a would-be bandit from entering the branch or escaping outside.
Other components are high-tech digital cameras that provide crisper photographs and devices that emit smoke or tear gas.
The deterrents have been effective. Between June 2002 and January 2003, robberies of Bank of America branches in metro Los Angeles fell 69 percent, to 24, compared with the 77 holdups between June 2001 and January 2002.
"The bottom line was that there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution to reducing robberies," said Brad Dinsmore, who oversees Bank of America's bank branches and mortgage centers in Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina.
Bank of America, which has 169 branches in metro Atlanta and plans 40 more, is considering using some of those measures in a few of its local branches. Experts say low-tech deterrents, like SouthTrust's no-hats policy, also are effective.
So, let's see, if I carry into a B of A bank, a set of clamshell doors traps me inside? No thanks!
Has anybody seen this security setup? I wonder if they prohibit carry in all of their banks, or if they actually know that people can carry in some states?