article_snippet.sent: But last weekend's raid in the heart of the city's jewelry  district feels like last weekend's raid in the heart of the city's jewelry  district has been taken from a movie like "Ocean 11" given last weekend's raid in the heart of the city's jewelry  district daring and planning.
article_snippet.sent: But how are such heists organized?
article_snippet.sent: In the UK burglaries and robberies are often committed by working-class people, people who would otherwise have blue collar jobs.
article_snippet.sent: Sophisticated heists like the Hatton Garden raid are generally not a natural progression for burglars who began with smaller domestic break-ins.
article_snippet.sent: Many neighborhood criminals commit burglaries to feed drugs habits and acquire long strings of convictions that mean Many neighborhood criminals are always on the police radar.  
article_snippet.sent: Probably the biggest difference between any heist you'll see in a movie and its real-life equivalent is the motive.
article_snippet.sent: The planning behind the Hatton Garden raid will have been meticulous.
article_snippet.sent: The target will have been observed, perhaps for months, and the thieves will have decided on the right time to commit the crime.  
article_snippet.sent: Sometimes the mastermind behind the Hatton Garden raid will need a larger team of criminals to do a specific job.
article_snippet.sent: Usually the mastermind behind the raid will already be known directly to each other, perhaps because the mastermind behind the raid worked on other jobs together.
article_snippet.sent: Possibly a specialist can be brought in by another team member -- but the mastermind behind the raid have to be able to trust each other and trust comes from understanding, so gangs in the UK tend to come from the same social and ethnic group, maybe even limited to one relatively small geographic area.