Mismatch in statistics shown in opening credit scene
In the opening credits Den of Thieves shows the statistics about the bank robbery as seen in the below screenshot:
Now, if we go top down then
2400 times a year = 46 times a week = ~6 times a day = every 4 hours = every 240 minutes
if we go bottom up then
every 48 minutes = 30 times a day = 210 times a week = ~10920 times a year
None of them matches, then what do they indicate?
Best Answer
2400 times a year, divided by 52 weeks a year:
- 2400 / 52 = 46.15 robberies a week
46.15 times a week, divided by 5 days a work week:
- 46.15 / 5 = 9.23 robberies a day
9.23 times a day, over an 8 hour work day:
- 9.23 / 8 = 1.15 robberies per hour, or, 1 robbery every 52 minutes.
So, we have:
- 2400 robberies a year
- 46.15 vs. 44 robberies per week
- 9.23 vs. 9 robberies per day (using 5-day work week)
- 52 vs. 48 minutes between robberies occurring (using 8-hour work days)
And then, working it backwards: 1 robbery every 48 minutes => 10 robberies a day => 50 robberies a week => 2600 robberies a year.
So,
- 1 robbery every 48 minutes
- 10 vs. 9 robberies a day
- 50 vs. 44 robberies a week
- 2600 vs. 2400 robberies a year
IMO, the figures work out fine and aren't too far off (~10% off at most). It does seem though that the statistic is only using the typical operating hours of a business in the US, that being - Monday thru Friday, 8a to 5p - which suggests that all reported robberies within this statistic took place during a bank's working hours (or, at least, to me it does).
That being said, as @Paulie_D has mentioned, the statistic may not be that accurate.
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Answer 2
To be honest...it doesn't matter because
They are all wrong.
There haven't been 2400 bank robberies a year in LA since the 1990's
Since the 1960s, the city of Los Angeles has become known as the Bank Robbery Capital of the World, but according to Los Angeles Times, after a half a century, FBI agents are now wondering, "where did all the bandits go?"
The FBI's L.A. office comprises seven counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange County, Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo. During the peak of L.A.'s bank-robbery era in 1992, as many as 28 banks were robbed in a single day, the Times reported.
The early '90s was the worst time for the seven-county region's banks with 2,641 robberies were logged while only 212 bank robberies occurred in 2013. Additionally, in 1983, L.A. had more bank heists than the New York, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and Sacramento regions combined. The 2013 incidents are equivalent to less than 10 percent of the early '90s robberies, according to the Times.
Indeed, the FBI's own statistics for 2016 show Calfornia as a whole had a grand total of 462 "Bank Crimes" from a US total of ALL bank crimes of 4251
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