Are people still masking up and running into a bank with a gun demanding money? The FBI leads the investigations on bank robberies and they have been tracking this crime since the 1930’s. Early data was based only on voluntary reports from police chiefs and high ranking officials of large cities. In 1948 there were only 53 bank robberies that were reported. Better data and higher reporting started about 1970 when the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports reported just over 2,000. The number of US bank robberies peaked in 1991 when over 9,000 were committed.