Law and Crime Facts

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    Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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    Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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    IRS: Criminals legally required to declare illegal income on tax return
    According to the IRS, self-employed criminals are required to declare the source of their illegal income (like selling drugs) - and they can't prosecute for it!
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    16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
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    Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
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    Self-Trolling
    Self-Trolling
    A woman in Britain was sentenced to 20 months in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles and trolling herself.
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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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    About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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