It's pretty clever really. First they know their crimes are so complex and decentralized its hard to bring a single person to account. Implicating others together is indeed reasonable but sometimes even a singular criminal only gets caught because of a vague loose end, imagine dozens of vague loose ends? Even trying to put those together make you look nuts.

Thing is, you're actually really smart. You get it. And others like you get it too. Baddies also get it. But the idiots?

The idiots are the majority. They don't get it. They would get it if they're told to get it, but unfortunately they don't see patterns like us so when we're weaving our tapestry before them it's very easy for "them" to giggle and point and laugh at us. Suddenly the universal peer pressure kicks in and the idiots have no other choice but to point and laugh too.

Democracy is a horrid thing. Rule by the smart is the only way.