No doubt some of the most interesting people to jaw with over at the Brieant Courthouse are the court security officers led by Tommy Delahanty. They’re veterans of the NYPD, Yonkers and White Plains police departments, among others, who have done more than their 20 and put in their papers. They’ve seen it all, in other words.

Take yesterday’s sentencing of prostitute turned bank robber Christina Dawn Davis, who was sentenced to probation for an October 2007 stickup in Ardsley where she served as the getaway driver. Davis flipped on her co-defendants and has by all accounts done a 180 in her life.

After the sentencing I ran into CSO Connie Montanaro in the courthouse lobby. Bank robberies were a specialty of hers when she worked on the major case squad for the NYPD. She asked about Davis and it called to mind some of the cases she worked on – and the fact that even the most successful and daring bank robbers never quite rise to the pop culture image of bank bandits as sort of land-locked pirates, swimming in swashbuckling smarts.

Take the guy who hit three dozen banks in the city back in the late 80s. When he was finally nabbed, Montanaro questioned him and wondered why he picked off a lot of big banks but skipped over Canadian banks, the Bank of Israel and the Bank of Tokyo – even though they were right in his preferred path along Fifth Avenue.

“Well, those banks are foreign banks, right?” he said.

“Yeah, so?” Montanaro replied.

“They ain’t got any American money in there,” he said.