Syndicates create the infrastructure for the criminal element.
Syndicates have their go-to guys, who elicit the help of the poorest of the poor, who live in shacks, who might be unemployed and in dire need.
Here the perpetrators identify two things: Informants that will give them information of who is stealing from the syndicate.
The informants identify new forms of clans or gangs.
Syndicates pay informants for this information
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