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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by stagger87 on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:10AM (#24038675)
Organized crime has a specific meaning. Whether this particular outfit is one or more people has no bearing on the use of the term organized crime in this instance.
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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by markdown on Monday August 03, 2020 @05:37PM (#24043757)
I asked:

> What makes crime "organised"?

Your answer is:

> Organized crime has a specific meaning

Well... what is it?

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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by stagger87 on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:22PM (#24044680)
Sorry, I didn't think you might not be able to search for it. Here's a link.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime

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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by markdown on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:55AM (#24048346)
The link says you're wrong, and that in fact you can't have organised crime without at least two people.
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