How do gangsters get away with it?

[Jonone]

If the gates are to keep the Police out they're not very effective as you said they're frequent visitors to these properties albeit leaving with their tails between their legs having failed to plant evidence which would result in their conviction and the seizure of their assets.

The received wisdom is that villains run a tidy manor - the recidivists version of a 'tight ship', for example it was said that in Ronnie and Reggie's heyday in the East End you could leave your front door unlocked and trust that wrongs would be righted and reparations made. It wouldn't surprise me if the incidence of crime and general mischief in the environs of these gangster's properties is statistically very small.

We may not always approve of their brazeness and bending of the laws, but their version of 'tough love' does appear to be very effective in terms of maintaining social order in their communities. Behavioural economists could learn a lot from them !

[max_tranmere]

I've not heard that called 'tough love' before. 'Summary justice' is the term people normally use.

[belfast_birty]

They'get away with it' because they are either cleverer than the police,pay them or,as police informers,are allowed greater lattitude than lesser mortals.

[Deano!]

Lizard wrote:

> You cant call them "Gangsters" anymore, they are mis-adventure
> capitalists

Lizard's right Max. Just because someone chooses an alternate lifestyle which might include slashing people's faces off for not paying drug debts does not give you grounds to discriminate against them. That's how Hitler got started...

[eroticartist]

Max,
It is obvious! These guys have a licence! They are looking for people with a business to feed the money through so as to clean it.
Mike Freeman.

PS: Haven't you read my book the Corollary of Corruption?

[max_tranmere]

Deano, this is true. Rather like how in this mad PC world kids cant be called 'failures' anymore at school - it has to be refered to as 'deferred success', crims aint crims no more. Some daft left-leaning "think tank" set up by the Labour Government, at vast expense to the taxpayer, will probably re-christen criminals 'alternative lifestyle pioneers' or something equally as demented!!

[max_tranmere]

I've thought about how to clean up dirty money and one way would be as follows:

You open 10 differnt bank accounts and put a few hundred quid in cash each week into each one. They wont ask any questions, and no bank will be aware of your other accounts (and nor will the authorities unless they write to the head office of every bank and ask them - which they won't). So do that for a couple of years and you will have built up heaps of money. You also go to The Bureau De Change and change a grand into Euro's, then go to another branch the same day and pretend you have just come BACK from holiday and have a thousand pounds worth of Euro's left, and can they change it into pounds sterling (and you ask them to give you a cheque) and then you have a grand in clean money and you stick the cheque into one of your accounts. Keep doing this and you will also launder hundreds of thousands of pounds through Bureau De Change branches. If any of your banks ask just say it is your savings account and you are building up loads of dosh for later in life. After a few years you amalgamate your accounts and when you close all but one of them (the one that will be where ALL your money will stay) you ask the bank manager for a cheque each time. You then stick 9 cheques, each for hundreds of thousands of pounds, into the last remaining account, and - hey presto! - you've got MILLIONS of 'clean ' pounds sitting in one bank account to buy your mansion, cars, and so on with. Sorted!