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ELI5: In movies we see negotiators outside a bank robbery. So in real life what exactly would they be allowed to do?

Can they give in to demands like in movies?
Do they really let people be so close to the crime scene behind the tape?
Basically how different is it from a movie?
gpt
I think that the negotiation role is less appeasement and more intended to open up a channel of communication and try to persuade the robbers/gunmen to turn themselves in. If they're talking on the phone, they're not killing hostages. If you start killing hostages, the game is up, because it becomes a race to see whether they can kill all the hostages before they are killed themselves.

If you commit an armed robbery and take hostages, they're is no version of the story where you fly off in a helicopter with cash. Even if that happened, you'd be arrested at the airport etc. Generally, you get arrested or shot.