Law and Crime Facts

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    Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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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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    Pretty Boy Floyd
    Pretty Boy Floyd
    A bank robber named "Pretty Boy" Charles Floyd reportedly destroyed mortgage papers on heists, freeing hundreds of people from property debt.
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    A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
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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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    China Afforrestation
    China Afforrestation
    In 1981, the Chinese government passed a resolution that makes it a duty of every citizen over the age of 11 to plant at least one tree per year.
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    Self-Trolling
    Self-Trolling
    A woman in Britain was sentenced to 20 months in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles and trolling herself.
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    In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
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