Law and Crime Facts

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    In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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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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    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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    There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
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    Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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    16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
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    The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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    The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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