Law and Crime Facts

    Random Law and Crime Facts

    There are 50 Law and Crime Facts!

    About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
    223
    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.
    52
    Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made so much money, he spent over $2,500 every month just on rubber bands to bundle up his stacks of cash.
    23
    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.
    12
    Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
    111
    In Japan, gambling is illegal. However, they circumvent the law by giving out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back to the establishment for cash.
    -3
    Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
    158
    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
    181