The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.
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Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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