Heist City

Tempting targets in L.A.

More movies are made around Los Angeles, of course, than anywhere else in the U.S. More Mercedes-Benzes are sold there than in any other American city, more guacamole is served, more tans are perfectly maintained. Also, more banks are robbed there, many more. Last fiscal year in Los Angeles and its environs there were 1,720 bank heists, compared with 546 in San Francisco, the country's second-place stick-'em-up city, 443 in New York City, 132 in Baltimore and just 56 in Chicago. Indeed, nearly one out of three U.S.

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