That’s a nice looking switch. Wow. I bet it makes a nice thwack.
It looks like there are two ground/earth wires on one ground post and two hots on the corresponding hot. Two circuits are being powered through the one switch. Would need to see more of the device guts to understand why.
I think that would be classified as a Rocker switch with a Paddle actuator.
From the back it looks like a DPST switch.
Double/Dual Pole means it switches two separate pairs of conductors at once. Many circuits only need to switch the hot or the ground wire and use a Single Pole switch. A SPST switch has 2 terminals on the back. This one has 4 so it can switche both the hot and ground at the same time.
Single Throw means it’s got only off and on. No other position. Dual Throw would have 3 positions, so a SPDT would have 3 terminals on the back, and a DPDT switch has 6 terminals on the back.
Rectangular
Panel mount
Recessed or Inset
Any numbers or markings on the back? I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t available any more. To me it looks like something from the 1970s-1990s.
There might be markings on the circuit board that help date it.
That number seemed way off to me. Not sure where you got it. Perhaps in some kind of analysis of a sample/subset of cases?
Robberies all involve violence or a threat of violence, so calling out armed robbery specifically seems too narrow. Someone says they have a weapon and robs you, that’s reported as a robbery. If the police catch them and they are unarmed, that’s still just robbery, not armed robbery. But it seems relevant to the point in this discussion.
Anyway, New York City alone had almost that many robberies in the month of December 2024, and had 16000 robberies for the year in 2024. Source
The number I see for the country in 2024 is ~625000 robbery cases from FBI data. Just looking at armed robbery is more like 100k cases (200k if you include strong arm). Source