Law and Crime Facts

    Random Law and Crime Facts

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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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    No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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    Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
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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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    Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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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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    Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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    In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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