Robbing banks is as American as apple pie.
The author of that statement is not a spiritual brother to H. Rap Brown ("Violence is as American as cherry pie"). Rather, he is a former FBI agent named William G. Barry, chief of Smith & Wesson Security Services, a year-old firm that advises bankers on how to frustrate the robbers. Barry argues that knocking over banks has always been a particularly popular crime in the U.S., the home of such anti-heroes as the James brothers, John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde. Bank robberies in...
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