<![CDATA[Are you or do you live in a country where organized crime exists?]]>Organizations like the Yakuza, 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra, the Irish Mafia, etc, are part of many countries, to bigger or smaller fashion.

But to someone from those countries, what do you think was the original/historical cause for such organizations to develop?

My country - Portugal - has some degree of presence of these organizations but, to my knowledge, we never developed our domestic version of a crime syndicate. And we are not a bunch of choir boys. Something just kept things from forming. And that intrigues me.

So, what is the understanding of someone from a country where the organizations exist?

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/topic/fa147403-14ba-4371-b79c-d30ec3da4ca1/are-you-or-do-you-live-in-a-country-where-organized-crime-existsRSS for NodeSat, 05 Sep 2026 19:02:18 GMTSat, 29 Aug 2026 18:50:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Are you or do you live in a country where organized crime exists? on Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:36:42 GMT]]>Because of course third world countries have no corrupt authorities. /s

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/24419821https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/24419821Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:36:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are you or do you live in a country where organized crime exists? on Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:28:50 GMT]]>I live in a first world country so we have legal organised crime and illegal organised crime.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25557091https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25557091Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:28:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are you or do you live in a country where organized crime exists? on Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:28:19 GMT]]>Doesn't every country have some degree of organised crime present?

Like they may not have glamorous crime families like the Mafia but wherever there's crime, there's organised crime groups.

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