Ongoing Bank Hostage Story - movies vs. real life

I've no idea of what normal police procedure is in this case, but it would make sense not to offer armed crooks easy targets.

On the other hand, a visibly large police presence could convince them their chances of escape are nonexistent and induce them to surrender more readily.

Over, in a suburb of Houston.

It lasted five hours. Both men walked out and surrendered, one at four and one at five hours.

Story time. A half dozen years ago the bank across from my store had a similar incident which turned out okay. I wasn't there but Andy, who works for me and is someone some of you know, was.
He was impressed by how quickly the police cut off vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
And then three guys came in wanting to gain access to the roof of our 2 story building overlooking the 1 story bank. Andy led them upstairs, out a window onto the roof of the furniture store next door, and then over the 3 foot parapet.
They thanked him but told him to leave. He dawdled long enough to watch them unpack their weaponry; an amazing array of stuff.

And this is in a sleepy little town.

I witnessed the police come to arrest a man at the apartments. I don't know what he did to piss them off, but they arrived with some pretty good weaponry. One stood off a ways with the longest rifle I recall seeing in my lifetime. Maybe the circumstances magnified it for me; who knows? They tried a number of times to persuade the manager to unlock the man's door for them. She steadfastly demanded a warrant, which they claimed to have but never managed to produce. After fifteen minutes, the man walked out. I never saw or heard from or about him again.

I am convinced that irrespective of how mankind and society progresses/evolves, there will always be a criminal class.

Agreed. I believe that if we lived in utopia there would still be a criminal element.

I wonder why?

Why did that woman kidnap a boy and burn him up with a blow torch? There's no perfection in the genes -

Yes, but that insane criminality. Who can figure that?

Robbing a bank, picking a pocket, running a con...that's not insane; that's not a product of genetics.

All I know is, some can learn and break off their criminal habits and some cannot. I am not smart enough to know why if they are not genetically different.