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/^t/Although all acts of crime are serious and cannot be neglected especially when their frequency and brutality increases individual acts of crime are only the top of the iceberg. What really became the main issue is organized crime and organized crime as well as individual acts of violence may be attributed to gaps in Polish law. The heads of big organizations of criminals are well known to the police and to avarage Poles who follow by the means of massmedia what is going on in the country. Their businesses thrive and they are at large because they are able to hire solicitors who do not have to make a big effort in order to keep their clients away from the hands of policemen and judges. Even if they are arrested it suddenly occurs that there is no article in Polish law that would allow to sentence them. Poland may be treated as a real Eldorado for chiefs of gangs because there is always a possibility of paying a bail and the bails granted by Polish courts may be easily afforded by prosperous criminals. If the solicitors are not able to protect their clients from prison bars they can be sure that after a short period of time their influencial and well-to-do clients will be put on probation. Criminals like members of the Pruszkow mafia remain at large, terrorize society and make big profits sarcastically smiling at the creators of Polish law system.