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I'm Laurie Taylor and this is a podcast for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Aloud. Is it

excessively conspiratorial to believe that our own society is bedeveled by organized crime, to maintain that other

societies are ruled by mafia-like structures. Find out.

Hello. Several years ago when I was writing a book on professional crime, I got the opportunity to talk to a man who'd been involved

in a couple of extensively publicized bank robberies, robberies which have been described

in the press as highly planned operations carried out by a crack

team of well briefed underworld professionals. But when I met my informant and I began to talk about

how long it must have taken for him and his team to plan such a grand theft.

He virtually laughed in my face.

He told me that the last well-publicised bank job he'd done had been planned over lunchtime

drinks.

After a few rounds, someone had suggested doing the bank

round the corner. All that was needed was a getaway car, a few balaclavas and a gun

which could be fired into the ceiling of the bank as a general frightener. A couple of hours later they're all back together

again doling out the proceeds. But the police and the bank had suggested the

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