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OPERATION SAFECATCH
A Proactive Approach to Bank Robberies08/06/09
“SafeCatch doesn’t put bank employees in danger, but it does empower them to make a potential robber think twice about going through with it," says Special Agent Larry Carr.
A Seattle bank teller last week chased a would-be robber from the bank, wrestled him to the ground several blocks later and held him there until police came. To some, the teller’s actions were heroic, but he was not following long held banking industry policies.
While police and the FBI discourage behavior like the teller’s admittedly instinctive response, an agent in our Seattle office says there is indeed a way for bank employees to be heroes in the event of a robbery, and without putting anyone at risk. All they have to do is follow the guidelines recommended in our innovative bank robbery suppression program called SafeCatch.
“SafeCatch doesn’t put bank employees in danger, but it does empower them to make a potential robber think twice about going through with it, and if he does, it teaches employees to partner with law enforcement to safely assist in the capture,” said Special Agent Larry Carr, our Seattle bank robbery coordinator who created the SafeCatch concept several years ago.
Since 2006, Carr has provided SafeCatch training to some 40 Washington State financial institutions—that’s about 400 bank branches and 3,000 employees—and the results speak for themselves. Last year, Seattle saw a 51 percent decrease in the number of bank robberies from its decade average between 1996 and 2006 of approximately 300 robberies annually. These statistics are even more impressive considering that in many parts of the country bank robberies are on the rise.
The conventional wisdom in the banking industry regarding robberies can be summed up in one word: compliance. Hand over the money and make sure nobody gets hurt. While well intended, Carr discovered this philosophy may actually be a contributing factor to the number of banks being robbed.
SafeCatch—which is being evaluated for use in other FBI field offices—takes a more proactive approach. First, it trains bank employees to spot suspicious behavior and safely take control of the situation. The majority of bank robbers are males acting alone without weapons—they know that using a weapon during a robbery can mean a lot more jail time. The robber typically poses as a customer waiting in line. It’s only when he gets to the teller’s window and makes a demand that he has committed a crime.
Employees trained in SafeCatch learn to spot “customers” who may be acting nervously or wearing hats or hooded sweatshirts—to shield their faces from security cameras. Before a robbery occurs, employees proactively engage the person:
“Good afternoon!” the employee might say. “I don’t think I’ve seen you in this branch before. If you’re here to open a new account, I can take your ID and help you at my desk.”
That action might be just enough to make the robber head for the door. If the person turns out to be a legitimate customer, Carr said, the only thing the employee has done is offer excellent customer service.
When a holdup does occur, SafeCatch trains the victim teller to dial 911 immediately, as opposed to activating an alarm. This way the teller, usually the only one who knows what happened, is in direct contact with the police in real time.
“It’s important to catch the guy after his first robbery and before he can strike again,” Carr said. “If we teach strategies that make it possible to safely achieve a police capture, you will see dramatic drop in an area’s bank robbery rate.”
August 7, 2009
FBI — Safecatch - Press Room - Headline Archives 08-06-09
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English Russia » Another Music VideoThis Russian music video is being popular in Russia lately. Some think it’s popular because of it’s nostalgic nature - they say it has been made mainly of the submitted photos from the family archives of Russian people.
Amazon.com: Bats Out of Hell (9780802133861): Barry Hannah: Books
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Perspectives on Barry Hannah
Perspectives on Barry Hannah
Perspectives on Barry Hannah
Edited by Martyn Bone
DECEMBER, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index
9781578069194 Cloth $50.00S
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A career-spanning examination of a masterful fiction writer's output
Perspectives on Barry Hannah is a collection of essays devoted to the work of the award-winning fiction writer Barry Hannah. The anthology features a broad range of critical approaches and covers the span of Hannah's career from Geronimo Rex (1972) to Yonder Stands Your Orphan (2001). The book also includes a previously unpublished interview with Hannah.
The ten essays cover all of Hannah's thirteen published books. The contributors give fresh perspectives on Hannah's classic works (Airships and Ray), provide illuminating readings of important fiction that has received less critical attention (Nighwatchmen, Hey Jack!, and Never Die), and offer the first sustained criticism of Hannah's acclaimed later fiction (Bats Out of Hell, High Lonesome, and Yonder Stands Your Orphan). As Martyn Bone explains in his introduction, the essays--though varied in approach and style--consistently hone in on the recurrent themes that characterize Hannah's career: his relationship to postmodernism; his interrogation of traditional ideas of masculinity and heroism; his complex engagement with southern history, literature, and culture; and his growing concern with spirituality and morality.
The essays in Perspectives on Barry Hannah make connections between Hannah's work and that of several prominent modern and postmodern authors, including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Allen Tate, John Irving, J. M. Coetzee, and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors also consider Hannah's fiction in relation to non-literary cultural forms such as sport, film, and popular music. Ultimately, Perspectives on Barry Hannah affirms Hannah's status as a leading figure in contemporary American literature.
Martyn Bone is assistant professor of American literature at the Institute for English, German, and Romance Languages at the University of Copenhagen. His previous publications include The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction.
DECEMBER, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index
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HTMLGIANT / Barry HannahPower Quote: Barry Hannah
“The only thing that keeps me going on my mission is the sacred inalienable right of the Confederacy to be the Confederacy, Christ Our Lord, and the memory of your hot hairy jumping nexus when I return.”
- “Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed,” in Airships
BARRY HANNAH: Dispatches from Captain Maximus (guest posted by Michael Bible)
HTMLGIANT / Dispatches from Captain Maximus (guest posted by Michael Bible)Dispatches from Captain Maximus (guest posted by Michael Bible)
Michael Bible, a former student of Barry Hannah (and wearing one of the best names around), shares some of his Hannah light:
Zita, an odd and earnest woman in her 60’s, sat in on Barry Hannah’s workshop. She often reeked of gin. She hounded Barry so much about “rules” to writing (something he preached hard against) that he finally caved and wrote out a few things for her about her writing. She photocopied the handwritten “rules” and passed them out to everyone in the class the next week. So when reading this remember they are addressed to her.
1. [Your writing is] in the rut of adjectives and “Life Studies.” In the rut of people who aren’t there.
2. When you tell a story think more in terms of yarn, tale, even whopper. Then tell it subtly. DON’T think of nuance or “interior decoration.”
3. Your characters HAVE to be people of interest. Neither suburban, rural or local “types.” They must be in conflict, with a life or death problem at stake.
4. Pride, dignity, humiliation, wild pones, criminal, impotent watchers of sex (Popeye with the corncob.)
5. Your style should be vivid and memorable, something from the loins, gut, heart and head that is strong even if it is soft. Tell a story naturally. See if you HAVE a voice that has not been trained out of you by other writers, teachers, or even the favored classics of literature. Try being alone and honest very hard. Love your loneliness. Get close to your page. Just START TALKING, as Mark Twain did. He was the first natural voice, he WAS the first truly American writer.
6. In grad workshops your can make QUANTUM LEAPS in your art as you cannot with a piano or saxophone. (Perhaps you can in painting or photography e.g. my own [illegible] where I am never going to be better than an adequate cartoonist or late modern [illegible]. But you cannot WANT to learn, not want to listen to the advice of professional writers. You can just cool your jets and be mediocre the rest of your writing life. RETREAT is what I see happening too much. The adventure is left out. You are afraid of reading into the ACTS of others, you are stuck in mere conciseness. So DO something more and leave complacency—give your men and women something to do, to say, to move, to explode or implode.
This second item is Barry Hannah, Larry Brown and Brad Watson chatting on the radio. I have no idea what it was for. I got it from an old friend of Barry’s. It’s from 1994 and is about an hour long and damn funny. Barry really gets going by the end and Larry is typical badass self.
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– Michael Bible is the author of the forthcoming chapbooks, “My Second Best Bear Rug” (Paper Hero Press) and “Gorilla Math” (Greying Ghost Press).
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