Thieves,thieves, tramps and thieves

All thieves act in groups,two- or three -strong. The group is always headed up by a woman. All partners are equal and share out the proceeds of crime evenly.

Among a different sort of criminal distraction artiste,we count accomplices. There is very little we can do because often the police are indifferent.

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Using observation, we comprehend that the shop assistant plays a key role in petty theft.  In recompense for the money stolen,he discounts the transaction from his employers resources or offers you an out-of-date item from stock.

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The Provos will always step forward to defend the thief and the scoundrel and the police snout because those categories of people are their clientele.  Few at the top of Sinn Fein realised that fact apart from Adams and Mc Guinness did,too. They realised that they had to mimic the tactics of the police if they were to have any success in staging a long-running insurrection. Their agents were barmen and taxi drivers in North and West Belfast because supporters elsewhere knew that the Belfast and Derry Provos and those imitating them were only "the sweepings of the gutter" out to get rich at the cost of someone else's career or livelihood, someone they had dragged into their sordid games with knives,guns and call girls.