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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly really wants TD Bank to increase its security: The Daily News reports that he sent the bank a letter criticizing the bank's "friendly" atmosphere (like robber-friendly) lack of bandit barriers, "It is simply unacceptable to put business decisions before public safety." The News adds, "As if to prove Kelly's point, a prolific thief successfully robbed $1,000 from a TD branch on Ninth Ave. Monday - after being rebuffed at three Chase branches" (the Chase branches do have barriers between the customer and tellers). Apparently 17% of this year's bank robberies occurred at TD Bank branches, but TD Bank says, "We don't believe saying that we have a disproportionate amount of robberies is a fair portrayal of us." The NYPD wants to see bandit barriers plus eye-level cameras and "countertops designed to leave clear fingerprints" at bank branches to help deter more bank robberies (which were up 57% last year).
Commish Tells TD Bank It Has Too Many Robberies
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"The NYPD wants to see bandit barriers plus eye-level cameras and "countertops designed to leave clear fingerprints" at bank branches to help deter more bank robberies"
If they had only applied these same safety measures to the people who took out stated-income loans a couple years back.
perhaps kelly should stop trying to tap dance away from the key facts that the business of banks is to provide comfortable venues for financial transactions whereas the responsibility for preventing crimes is the business of the police department, a responsibility his department would handle a lot more effectively if he would accept his personal responsibility to lead it out of its ongoing stew of brutal incompetence and corruption.
Actually it is not the responsibility of the police to prevent crime. It is their responsibility to investigate crimes. That's like saying the city is responsible for the prevention of all those dumbasses who fall on the subway tracks when they are drunk. If they took some common sense measures (like TD Bank should) maybe we wouldn't all have to pay for them. And yes we all pay for them. Where do you think the FDIC gets the money to reimburse banks for lost money? The taxpayers.
And also it is the responsibility of banks to provide SECURE venues for transactions above all. Who cares how comfortable you are if they are going to get your money stolen?
Agreed.
Someone who left his keys in his car or took a walk through Central Park at night would get little sympathy here.
It doesn't take much to deter the typical junkie POS that would hold up a bank branch for petty cash.
Almost every TD Bank in the five boros I have been in has had a NYPD officer in uniform in it providing security.
That seems like a better safety system.
L.A. is losing it's touch.
Hey commish—I want cops who don't rape drunk women while having drugs in their locker, cops who don't taser naked defenseless mentally ill people, cops who won't push bike riders to the ground. I want cops that aren't knee deep in drug dealing, extortion, and racketeering. I want cops who don't murder unarmed men. Finally I want cops who don't treat the public like excrement.
It's a bank, not a grocery store. Put up the bullet proof windows!
Customer service, regardless of window barriers, is unfriendly. I use JPMC and do not care at all that they use bullet proof glass as a barrier, I'm not there to make friends, I'm there to put money in my account and leave.
It's obviously a growing issue with TD and they're just not willing to address it.
We need a new law. Bullet proof windows in all banks.
I think we should try targeting the people who committ crimes, not target those who don't. All shady mortgage dealings aside, banks aren't the ones doing the robbing. Should we require private citizens to hire security guards or boost security in some other way if their homes are robbed too many times?
Eh, there's nothing wrong with some preventative measures. edEx is right that the "banking experience" is perfectly fine behind glass. (If you need anything complicated, a manager can always help you at a different desk.)
And, while I agree that Kelly is doing a terrible job in dealing with the real scumbags and incompetents on his force, that doesn't mean that he should stop doing anything. Let's be rational, whattaya say.
Finally, remember the movie Out of Sight, with J-Lo and George Clooney? That was really cool.
Anyone want to tell Kelly that the NYPD has too many rapists & corrupt cops to make his opinion at all valid?
Blame the victims of the crime-well you didn't have bullet proof glass and cameras to deter criminals. She was drunk and consented to sex with the offending officer. He was naked and a threat to others and needed to be tasered... Weak.
He has a point, prior to it being TD they were Commerce banks and i worked just above the one on 68th & B'way and the first month that oplace opened they had 3 robberies, all at mid-day with plenty of people around and that remained the case the entire time i was up there. It became a regular joke about when it would happen next. It only makes sense, after this many times to rethink how you're set up could in fact be hurting your buss.