I have walked down a street named Wall in NYC but I've never been to Wall St and I know nothing firsthand about the culture there. I have, however, participated

I have walked down a street named Wall in NYC but I've never been to Wall St and I know nothing firsthand about the culture there. I have, however, participated in very petty childhood and teenage crimes with other troubled boys, was a buyer of controlled substances for decades, and have been a gigging musician for periods of time, so I've been around criminality. One thing about every crime that involved more than one perpetrator that I know about is, there is a period of conspiring beforehand, which happens - must happen - away from the eyes of others. I encountered many weed dealers over the years who just used their cellphones as convenient appointment books/ledgers for the police, and I tended to not go back to them, cause they'll be out of business soon anyways. If you put a bunch of people controlling large sums of money in a single floor of an office building, it will be very easy to gather in a bathroom stall and plan the execution of any sort of crime over a few rails. They're basically being forced into it, because the environment itself guarantees obscene and ubiquitous graft. If they necessarily must communicate over digital means, they still can do it, there's plenty of ways to get encryption that works well enough to evade the pigs. But how many of these guys are actually smart enough to implement that? Most of them are going to assume that people smarter than them are keeping an eye. I connect to a remote desktop for work, and I take it for granted that they have my laptop's camera on when I'm connected. Because the light is on. Bet theirs is on too. It is probably more terrifying to them than Big Brother to Winston Smith. Any eye is terrifying to a criminal, and these fellows, they are still criminally-minded, they are just denied the crucial quiet, dark spaces in which to plan, so they are finding ways to stay happy with merely a million or two per year, with maybe a trip once or twice a year to plan a big score. If the USA really wanted to fix this, they would put every one of these people in a room by themselves and never let them talk to each other unless they're working for the same client I suppose. From home or at the office doesn't matter, but they should have twenty microphones around them at any moment they are working, each one monitored by a committed Marxist who would just love to hand them over to The State for Processing.