As the saying went, it wasn't theft you had to fear, but thieves setting their sights on you. Yet that saying did not quite apply in Gotham. In Gotham, most thieves were at the very bottom of the food chain, because the ones at the top were armed robbers with real guns and live ammunition.
But a few thieves were exceptions, and the famous Catwoman was one of them.
Most of the great thieves who rivaled Catwoman in fame were rather professional burglars. Their targets tended to share several traits: relatively easy to intimidate, weak security awareness, insufficient firepower, lax defenses, and terrain that made escape easy.
Logically, thieves all preferred places like that. But Catwoman was famous precisely because she liked doing the opposite.
She specifically targeted places that were the hardest to intimidate, had the strongest security awareness, possessed overwhelming firepower, were guarded with extreme strictness, and offered absolutely no easy route of escape.
Simply put, the estates of the Twelve Families, jewelry stores in downtown Gotham City, bank vaults for valuables, Gotham auction houses, and even Schiller Rodriguez's estate.
And her record went beyond that. As a thief, she had seduced Gotham's most famous vigilante and naturally moved into his manor.
As the leader of the Four Great Thieves of the East End, Catwoman was famous throughout the district, and people in the other districts had heard of her as well.
Most residents of the Affluent Areas in the south and west were not actually afraid of a petty thief like Catwoman, because everyone knew Catwoman was interested only in jewelry.
And in truth, most jewelry was not all that valuable. The residents of the Affluent Areas simply thought that in a place like Gotham, Catwoman had such skills yet only took jewelry instead of carrying out