It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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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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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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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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Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
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Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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