It would be nice to live nearest do...

It would be nice to live nearest door to the fire station if your house caught fire.

Similarly, if you want to be perceived safe while using an automatic teller machine, the optimum location would be at or near a police station - a site level a dul lard potential robber would avoid.

That's the thinking of officials in Anne Arundel shire Md., a county of 460000 persons located between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, which began installing ATMs in all its police stations in 1995

The shire took this action to provide safer ATM access for its 11824 employee and other residents after eight ATM robberies in 1995 which included an undercover officer being ball Even though ATM robberies are statistically rare, like airplane crashes they have a disproportionately negative impact upon the public's image of safety.

Anne Arundel's program required the cooperation of the shire executive's ...