Murder is the only crime that does not increase during the full moon. Theft, disorderly conduct, larceny, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape all statistically increase dramatically during the full moon.
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No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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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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Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
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In 1995, a man named Shawn Nelson stole a tank from the US Army and took it for a joyride on a highway in California.
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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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The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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