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by arkitaip 2090 days ago
That's ALL criminals for you. They can be very smart and yet consistently commit silly and avoidable mistakes.
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That's all criminals that you know about, because they got caught.
Well there are three classes really. (1) Criminals who got caught. (2) Crimes that were obviously committed, but were never solved. (3) And crimes that were performed so well that we don't even know they happened.

I think you would be very hard-pressed to create a large scale drug marketplace in category 3. Thus we can look at ratio of 1 and 2, to see how clever criminals are.

Samuel Little is a perfect example of some one category 3, that was eventually caught...

He was charged with 4 counts of murder in 2013, but in 2018 he was connected to a murder in Texas. Further investigations connected him to over 50 murders over almost 40 years, but he claims 93. The police hadn't connected ANY of the murders until he was picked up on narcotics charges and his DNA matched a bunch of cases in LA. He'd been in and out of jail 26 times between '61 and '75 for lessor charges, and was even charged with murder in '82, but was acquitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Little

It would only be category 3 if all the murders looked like suicides or accidents - if we didn't know they even were murders.
It was Category 3 enough that they never connected all the murders together until he told them... We didn't know he was a serial killer, and we didn't know that there WAS a serial killer running around.
Large marketplaces are know to enough people. Had one operated for super long, it would be known.
That's all people.