A film in 1971 – Complaints Against the Police – asked whether the police themselves were above the law. ibid.
What makes a serial killer? What drives them toward sadistic murder? What are the roots of their cold-blooded brutality? … What they all have in common is an unquenchable thirst for murder … they are serial killers. Inside the Criminal Mind s1e1: Serial Killers, Netflix 2018
In the 1970s the Federal Bureau of Investigation added psychological profiling to their arsenal of tools to capture these killers. ibid.
‘There’s no one course that makes an individual turn into or become criminals.’ ibid. Dr Kostas A Katsavdakis
Brain imaging … Their brains were observed to be different from those of normal people with diminished activities in the areas of the brain that are linked with self-awareness, the processing of emotions and sensitivity to violence. ibid.
Is it nature or nurture? ibid.
How far will a kidnapper go to fulfil his cruel and sadistic desires? … The motivations are complex. Inside the Criminal Mind s1e2: Kidnapping
Most of these kidnappers have some form of paraphilia. ibid.
And even go so far as to have children with the women. ibid.
Horrible stories of hundreds of people trapped in a bizarre web of brainwashing and terror, twisted tales ending in horrific scenes of massacre, murder, sexual abuse and mass suicide: all caused by madmen and their maniacal teachings. These are the cult leaders and their all powerful methods of mind control. Inside the Criminal Mind s1e3: Cult Leaders, Netflix 2018
They are some of the most powerful business executives on the planet, described as part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star. They control powerful organisations that generate unimaginable wealth but their fortunes aren’t spawned through clever corporate strategy: their businesses are built on gambling, drugs, intimidation, fear and murder. Their tactics are heartless, their methods are cruel, and their psychology is pure evil: Crime Lords. Inside the Criminal Mind s1e4: Crime Lords
The only crime of its nature in which a child had died as an indirect result of internet gaming. Love Child, 2014, television news, Andrew Salmon re South Korean case
Tales of crime grab your attention like little else. The people who inhabit the criminal underworld have always made fascinating literary characters. Classic Literature & Cinema III: Crime, Sky 2021
One of the earliest pieces of crime fiction is from the 1,001 Nights, the collection of folk tales from the Middle East. ibid.
Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue. ibid.
Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone, which deals with the unexplained theft of a diamond. ibid.
It would be a doctor named Arthur Conan Doyle who created the greatest detective of all time with Sherlock Holmes. ibid.
In 1929 Agatha Christie introduced another of the great literary detectives – Hercule Poirot. ibid.
Little Caesar (1931) … Scarface (1932) … High Sierra (1941) … Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) … Double Indemnity (1944) … The Big Sleep (1946) … Brighton Rock (1948) … The Third Man (1949) … Strangers on a Train (1951) … The Godfather (1972) … The Firm (1993) … ibid.
Maigret would go on to feature in an astonishing 84 novels. ibid.
All the major banks had been rigging interest rates, and many of them had been laundering money for organised crime, including the drug cartels of Mexico. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head VI Are We a Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? ***** BBCiplayer 2021
The 100 corporate criminals fell into 14 categories of crime: Environmental (38), antitrust (20), fraud (13), campaign finance (7), food and drug (6), financial crimes (4), false statements (3), illegal exports (3), illegal boycott (1), worker death (1), bribery (1), obstruction of justice (1) public corruption (1), and tax evasion (1). Russell Mokhiber, Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the Decade
There are no great crimes any more, Watson. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 starring Robert Stephene & Colin Blakely & Genevieve Page & Christopher lee & Irene Handle & Clive Revill & Tamara Toumanova & Stanley Holloway & Mollie Maureen et al, director Billy Wilder
‘We’ve got more villains in our game than you’ve got in yours, you know.’ Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty I: Firm in a Firm, BBC 2021, tape of bent copper to villain
At the dawn of the 1970s London was a city under threat. Drugs, pornography and violent robbery were front page news. But behind the headlines lay a sinister hidden truth. Amongst honest officers a secret network of bent coppers operated across London. It’s the story of corruption that went to the very top. And a band of honest coppers who took on the fight to stop the rot. ibid.
‘Black people and the working classes were easy pickings, and you could almost guarantee that any bust was successful.’ ibid. ex-rozzer
Three weeks into The Times’ investigation, and still unaware he is being recorded, John Simmonds continues to take money off Michael Parry. ibid.
‘The Sunday People was about to blow Scotland Yard wide open with another story. This time it really was the big time.’ ibid. ex-rozzer
‘That was all for show. They raid us once a month for appearances sake.’ Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty II: Goodbye Rotten Geezer, Soho sex shop worker
At this time, Soho at least in term of pornography, was a huge corruption machine in which hundreds of pounds was being paid every year to crooked cops. ibid. Martin Short, journalist
Demand for pornography in the late 1960s was at an all-time high. Magazines are cheap to produce, and hardcore material is easily smuggled in from the more liberal Europe. With vast profits to be made, pornographers continually pushed the boundaries of acceptability. The job of policing this lucrative trade is down to the Obscene Publications Squad. In charge of the Obscene Publications Squad is none other than Detective Chief Superintendent Bill Moody … He was making vast sums of cash doing deals with pornographers. ibid.
Police Chief And The Porn King. ibid. Sunday People front page
Seven days after taking charge, Robert Mark rewrites the rulebook and announces the Metropolitan Police’s first ever dedicated anti-corruption branch: A10. ibid.
A10 swoop on ten officers accused of corruption. ibid.
‘During the 1970s the crime of armed robbery had been brought to the state of almost perfection: it was the glamour crime. It was about villains carrying guns always afraid they would be ambushed by police and shot dead themselves.’ Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty III: Taking a Drink, ex-rozzer
‘Rumours began to circulate that deals of some sort were being done. The attention switched from Scotland Yard over to the City of London CID and that the Firm Within a Firm had not been put out of business, and bent cops were still rampant.’ ibid.
Eight men had been arrested in connection with the three armed robberies. All charges [armed robbery & murder] against them are dropped. ibid.
Codenamed Operation Countryman, 27 officers from Dorset begin their investigation into the allegations of corruption in the City of London police … Operation Countryman triples in size with more than 80 officers drafted in from 10 regional forces … After 4 years and after a cost of £4 million, Operation Countryman is being wound down. Out of the 200 allegations of corruption investigated, no Metropolitan police officers were convicted of any offences. ibid.
Perhaps the most terrifying statistic of all that Soares uncovered was that in Albany County (minority population 13 per cent) more than 95 per cent of imprisoned Drug Laws offenders were black or Hispanic. Whichever way you look at the figure, it can only mean one thing – something is rotten in the state. Misha Glenny, McMafia
Since 2000 more than 500,000 Americans have died of opioid overdoses. Millions of Americans have become addicted. Every 25 minutes a baby is born with opioid withdrawal. The US government estimates that the cost of opioid abuse is over $1 trillion. We call this ‘the opioid crisis’. But a crisis is something that just ‘happens’. What if we discovered that the opioid crisis was caused by businesses seeking to profit from pain? What if behind the crisis there was a spectacular crime? Alex Gibney, The Crime of the Century I ***** Sky Documentaries 2021
No American family has profited more from controlled substances, from Valium and Oxycontin, than the Sacklers. ibid.
In the 1960s Sackler became incredibly rich by expanding the market for addictive tranquillizers. ibid.
Controlled-release Oxycodone, or Oxycontin, would be the drug that triggered what we call the ‘opioid crisis.’ ibid.
Johnson & Johnson also genetically altered the nature of the plant to create a super-poppy … Soon 74,000 acres of Tasmania were devoted to opium. ibid.
Blinn was taking the equivalent of 200 hits of heroin a day. He kept the prescription bottle for 20 years because he felt something was not right. ibid.
A nationwide criminal conspiracy that included Fraud, Pills Mills, doctors trading drugs for sex, false statements to Congress, and attempts to target key officials of the Bush administration … The FDA was used to falsely and fraudulently market Oxycontin. ibid.
None of them would spend a day in prison. ibid.