Law and Crime Facts

    Random Law and Crime Facts

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    The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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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 Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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    Missing Plane
    Missing Plane
    In 2003, a Boeing 727-223 was stolen from an airport in Angola. Despite a worldwide search, it still has not been found.
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    Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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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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    The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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    IRS: Criminals legally required to declare illegal income on tax return
    According to the IRS, self-employed criminals are required to declare the source of their illegal income (like selling drugs) - and they can't prosecute for it!
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