Law and Crime Facts

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    Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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    In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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    There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
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    Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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    According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.
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    Richard Klinkhamer
    Richard Klinkhamer
    A year after his wife's disappearance, a Dutch crime writer named Richard Klinkhamer wrote a suspicious book about seven ways to kill your spouse. He became famous and spent the next decade hinting in print and on TV that he had murdered her. Finally, it turned out that he really had.
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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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    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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