Most minors know that if they are going to commit a robbery, it is better to kill the victim as there is less chance of being caught, and if they are, the punishment will be the same".
For street robbery, it is likely that people visit these common places on a regular basis, thus exposing themselves to risk.
"It's really robbery — it's theft — and that theft is being combined with consumer fraud," he said.
Janice K. Fedarcyk, the F.B.I.'s assistant director in charge of the New York office, said that although no one was hurt in the robbery, it was important to remember that lives were put at risk.
In his telling, Mr. Wilson's death had nothing to do with gangs, drugs or robbery — it was just about a shove, some angry words and pride, and that may be as sad as it gets.
As Francisco Goldman describes in his incisive 2007 book, "The Art of Political Murder," about the assassination of Bishop Gerardi, the military and its intelligence operators concocted evidence and witnesses to generate endless hypotheses — it was a robbery, it was a crime of passion — in order to conceal the simple truth that they had murdered him.
Even if there was a robbery, it was unnecessary force to shoot an unarmed black man".
Despite having committed armed robbery, it was immediately clear to the cops, the crooks, and myself that I didn't exactly belong.
Although safety equipment designed to reduce robberies exists, it is not clear what effect it has on reducing taxicab driver homicides.
Howard Sounes, who wrote the book Heist about the robbery, says it is now under option for a second time.
