Long time since I walked around Georgetown

I sent you an email by your email address and I really want to make sure you see it.

This story makes a good lead in for a much larger story, IF I can get you to do a little digging. http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2012/08/24/attempted-robbery-at-georgetown-mt-bank-fbi-and-police-investigating/

How many times per year is someone taken hostage, driven to an ATM, forced to make a withdrawal and then, if there’s enough money in the account, executed and the body hidden so the killer can clean out the bank account? If you can show the world the answer to that question, you will either force the banking industry to fix the problem or shut down their network.

It used to be impossible to get this data. That’s because there’s no crime code section for “forced-ATM-withdrawal.” The incident just gets lumped in with robbery and disappears from sight. The reason that no state keeps track of the problem is because everytime that a bill was proposed that would fix the gap in data, the banks jumped in and blocked it.

Because of improvements in police software, they can finally do a word search through the narrative section of the reports for “ATM” and or “automatic teller” and pull up every case where those words appear. By then overlaying the crime codes for murder, abduction, carjacking, home invasion, rape, robbery assault and missing persons-adult-involuntary, you can find all the cases in their files in about 20 minutes of work. It’s called a “meta search” and it is now a standard research tool.

DC’s FOIA / Public Records Request act will give you all you need. Since FOIA/PRR laws don’t require them to develop news ways of collecting data, you don’t ask for the numbers directly. Instead, you request the REPORT NUMBERS for the last 5 years of each and every Murder case where “ATM” or “automatic teller” appear in the narrative section. You then count up the numbers yourself.

Just off of Google News, searching for “ATM” and “murder” you’ll find 4 murders per week where the killer used the victim’s ATM card after forcing them to give up the PIN and card. That’s 200 deaths per year. If you compare that to the Ford-Firestone recall, you get 4 times as many casualties per year. But the Firestone recall only involved a 4 year period. This goes on forever.

I came up with the idea of an emergency PIN system for ATM users. By typing your PIN in reverse, you can instruct the computer to dispense the cash and call the police to your location as well as give them your identifier, like driver’s license, social security number, etc. I don’t need another advertisement for my system. I need to expose what’s being covered up.

Joe Zingher, esq
Gurnee, IL
847 650 3114

From my own data in Illinois, I think that somewhere between 3% and 6% of all confirmed murders involved the killer using the victim’s ATM card after the known time of death. The news media will not touch it for fear of offending the banks. But anyone can now get the data.

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