By the 1980s, Los Angeles had earned the title of “the bank robbery capital of the world.” National bank robberies had increased by 50 percent within five years, and L.A. was the perfect place because the freeway network allowed robbers to make a quick getaway. However, the Norco bank robbery was unlike any other, and it changed history forever.
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The motives for bank robbing had remained the same since the James-Younger gang in the 1800s, but the men who committed the Norco robbery were doing it for entirely different reasons. The infamous robbery changed American policing forever, and this is the real story behind the Norco shootout.