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Now replace "kids" with gangs and other organized crime, and it makes a little more sense why they'd want to encrypt it.


Gangs and organized crime have more sophisticated ways of avoid law enforcement


Do they? What are they?


Along with radicaldreamer suggestions it's also common to be really effective at stonewalling police while on secure wire cameras with audio recording and to have very good criminal lawyers on retainer. Also having patches and wannabes who are prepared to scapegoat themselves.

This isn't so much directly evading law enforcement but it's effective as it can easily cause police take actions that cause evidence and cases to be thrown out, raise reasonable doubt, etc.

Depleting resources and diversions are also relatively common, creating a 'fake' public threat or hate crime to investigate bleeds police resources away from ongoing investigations, etc.

The tango between gang squads and organized criminal groups is an ongoing escalating battle. The EncroPhone transcripts revealed a lot.


Bribery is a common one, counterintelligence is another, compromising people who are investigating them (or their family members)


you deserve neither freedom or security! according to our founding fathers.



...so the gangs will continue the crimes?


So the organization can't alert each other when they hear one of their locations or operations on dispatch.




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