Law and Crime Facts

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    Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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    Most burglaries occur during the daytime!
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    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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    Fines in Finland
    Fines in Finland
    In Finland, fines are income-based. In 2002, a Nokia executive received a US$103,000 speeding ticket.
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    Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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    Richard Klinkhamer
    Richard Klinkhamer
    A year after his wife's disappearance, a Dutch crime writer named Richard Klinkhamer wrote a suspicious book about seven ways to kill your spouse. He became famous and spent the next decade hinting in print and on TV that he had murdered her. Finally, it turned out that he really had.
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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 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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