KIRO 7 Eyewitness News South Sound reporter Kevin McCarty said there were two interesting trends that police discovered in 2010.

In 2009, bank robbers hit 24 times in the city. But in 2010, there were nine bank robberies.

"I'm not sure what happened," said Mark Fulghum of the Tacoma Police Department. "We have a pretty good record here of catching bank robbers, so hopefully that was a deterrent for some of these guys to go elsewhere."

Five of those robberies were committed by men and four by women.

Police said that is also unusual because bank robberies are more often committed by men.

One of the women robbers struck three days before Christmas, robbing a US Bank branch on South 38th Street.

Another woman --- nicknamed the Hobbit because of her slight stature -- was among the most prolific robbers in the city, hitting the same bank over and over in 2010 and late 2009.