Government corruption involving multiple colluding individuals should be referred to as organized crime.

Because it is.  Somehow people are willing to accept corruption,
maybe due to vagueness and not indicating a specific solvable situation,
maybe it implies moral weakness of a single individual,
maybe it implies disconnected isolated cases.

I bet there would be a lot more public and political will to fight corruption if it were referred to as organized crime. People don't want mafias forming within their government.  It sounds more dangerous, because it is.

I hate that the names things are labeled as matters.