More like you KNOW about the ones where they never caught the person. MILLIONS of bank robberies have likely occurred. Every teller I've ever known has been held up or knows someone who has been held up. I was held up as a cashier. It happens allllll the time. So you only think most go unsolved.

We only hear about the ones that weren't caught, except for the flamboyant, violent, brazen ones that got nabbed. My uncle was a cop, my aunt was a bank manager. In their town in New Hampshire, their have been hundreds of bank robberies over the past 40 years. Thats a single town.

Think about it. You really only hear about bank robberies when the person got away with it. People reaching over the teller's drawer and taking off with a handful of cash happens every single day. Or it used to. They almost always get caught. That doesnt even make it onto the local news most days. Shit, sometimes they get caught before 911 is even called. A cop is walking by and sees someone with ink stains from a money bag blowing up all over them and they start a foot pursuit.

There ARE a lot of robberies that go unsolved, though. I would venture most of those are either inside jobs or people who had inside knowledge. I'm not denying that. It's quite ridiculous when you think about it, I agree with you there. Even funnier to me, in an ironic way, is armoured car robberies. Like whaaaat? We put you in a big armoured vehicle that could withstand bombs and blasts with TWO armed guards or more, and the shit got stolen? You had, like, ONE JOB!