Organized crime appears to have been used for the first time in Dutch by the Catholic MP Jan Harte of Tecklenburg (1853-1937). In 1892 he argued for a better police force to be able to better tackle "cosmopolitan organized crime". In the decades that followed, organized crime was used repeatedly in reports about anarchists, Bolsheviks and Communists. An example from a Catholic newspaper from 1906 : "Anarchism is more than crime, it is a system, a philosophical, an organized crime."


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