Is there a difference between foreign and Indigenous crime?

The Daily Mai  reports  that 

Michael Caine, 85, transforms into fiery ringleader as he fronts star-studded King of Thieves film based on Hatton Garden heist
He previously admitted that retirement could be on the horizon following over five decades in the industry.
But Michael Caine has proven there's no rest for the wicked as he leads the star-studded cast of the upcoming heist film King of Thieves, based on the Hatton Garden burglary.
The 85-year-old British icon portrays the role of ringleader Brian Reader alongside award-winning actors Ray Winston, Tom Courtenay, Jim Broadbent and Paul Whitehouse.
They go on tom say
n a trailer for the movie, set to hit cinemas on September 14, the Alfie star transformed into an incredibly intimidating character, opening the clip by stating: 'I have made more many of out of gold than all the great train robbers all together.'
Brewing up a mischievous plan to raid the safe deposit facility, the criminal recruits an unlikely group of men in their 60s and 70s to execute the plan.
The £200million robbery - which took place in April 2015 - is often dubbed as the 'largest burglary in English history'.

Of course this is not the first film where Caine leads a gang of thieves the Italian Job has been described as a "Comic Caper" movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam".

In one memorable scene crime lord Mr. Bridger (Noël Coward) is cheered by inmates as news of the successful heist reaches  the prison in the manner of a football crowd as Inmates chant England, England.

Of course the latter film is fiction but I suspect that we would never see a film Europeans pulling off a heist like the Hatton Garden burglary or the fictional Italian job in London as a comic caper

The Mail would portray outrage and point to their claim that 

A quarter of Britain's organised gangs are operated by foreign criminals, it has today been revealed.An official study of Britain's criminal world - to be released tomorrow - is expected to say that there are more than 5,500 organised criminal gangs operating in the country - with 25 per cent run by international syndicates. Security sources say the greatest threat to the UK comes from Nigeria, Pakistan, Romania, Poland, Lithuania and Vietnam. Albania and Turkey are also causing concern. 

You would be unlikely to see a  humorous take of the news that Lithuanian  gangsters travelled all the way to Cornwall to snatch £1m in jewellery in an organised heist as the Sun reported last month.

Both in the UK and particularly US there is a tendency to blame organised crimes on immigrants in the latter it was the Italian even when Al Capone was succeed by  Murray Humphreys (20 April 1899[1] – November 23, 1965) (also known as The Camel or The Hump), was a Chicagomobster of Welsh descent who was the chief political and labor racketeer in the Chicago Outfit during Prohibition. Considered to be a ruthless but clever man,

He was a distant relative of Plaid Cynru's  Dafydd Wigley by the way.

Don't get me wrong I loved the Italian Job, but we need to make sure that we avoid the idea the "Indigenous" crime is  a "Comic Caper"  and that carried our by immigrants is despicable.

There are very strong social regions that  can see the formation of Organised crime and in the case of the Mafia and others it originates as a way  of ethnic groups protecting themselves.

Organised Crime is a very real threat but we should be beware of even suggesting that it is nearly always due to immigrant gangs,

We have our own Indigenous villains and they are not lovable characters as played by Michel Caine no matter how enjoyable it seems.

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