[Bret L]

The Crime Biz

Posted by Bob on August 28, 2009 at 9:14 am


"I worked for a while in two prisons. As someone has pointed out, if you took all the things I mention here and made a biography out of it, I have lived a couple of hundred years.

One thing I really learned while in those prisons was that crime is a
business. Not just organized crime, but crime in general. It is the
way certain people make their living.

Besides, if you are in prison, what does everybody around KNOW about?
At a medical convention people talk about medicine. In a prison, they
talk about crime.

Like all my observations this one seems obvious, so you nod and go on
worrying about what is in the paper or who is in People Magazine.

I was reading in an independent give-away yuppie newspaper about a guy
who got beat up by a gang in Five Points. Five Points is Columbia’s
yuppie and college student bar area.

So if you go back to People Magazine after reading my observation, you
will miss why this yuppie area that recently was so safe is now
dangerous.

One of the things prisoners discuss a LOT is guns. Contrary to the
Heroic Criminal Myth, criminals are no more fond of facing a weapon
than anyone else. No, it is NOT routine for a criminal to take the gun
away from a cringing, drooling person and shoot him with it.

In fact, there are likely far more incidents of crime victims taking
the fun away from the robber than vice-versa.

In the real world. But cases where someone who is not in a police
costume stopping crime is not reported. And the judges are a lot more
anxious to imprison someone for stopping crime than for committing it.

You see, the criminal knows who to call and what to say. This is
experience average people do not have, so the cops love to trap them.

But back to the specific case of talking about crime. In any prison
inmates about where citizens have guns in exactly the same way
builders talk about potential accidents. Citizens out of costume are a
major occupational hazard outside of states with what prisoners
consider good, solid gun laws.

Back to Five Points. I mentioned before that a black guy marched into
the recovery club with a gun and demanded money from everybody. Poor
******* was from New York.

Wrong state. One of those terrified uncostumed people in the club
pulled out his gun and killed him on the spot.

It happens that that club is in Five Points. But it is RECOVERY club.

Five Points has become a gathering place for muggers because it is gun
free. If a citizen has a gun permit, he cannot go into a place where
alcohol is served. Five Points is full of bars and restaurants that
serve alcohol, so it is the one place muggers and gangs are safe.

So if you just nod at my obvious observation, you will not understand
why Five Points is a gathering place for criminals and why the guy got
shot dead in that particular club."

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