Law and Crime Facts

    Random Law and Crime Facts

    There are 50 Law and Crime Facts!

    The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings).
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    A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
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    Amazing Plane Theft
    Amazing Plane Theft
    In 1956, for a bet whilst drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.
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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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    Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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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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    Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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    In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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