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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The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
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Some British police cars carry a teddy bear to console children after an accident.
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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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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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