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Everything has its opposite. Even crime.

Thus, but not very often in a city as venal as Ankh-Morpork, the Watch is troubled with reports of Proffering Money With Menaces, or Breaking and Decorating. Anti-crime must however not just be simply giving money but must involve doing so in a way that inflicts embarrassment and shame on the victim. For example whitemail, one could threaten to reveal a mobsters secret donations to charity.

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There may be a thread leading back from Anticrime, to the first faltering steps into crime made by the Piranha Brothers (Doug and Dinsdale) in the Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch. Being new to crime and not quite having got the hang of protection rackets, the Pirhanas would select a victim, and threaten not to beat him up as long as he didn't pay them any money. (After a couple more tries, they got it right, by a process of trial and error...)