Law and Crime Facts
There are 20 Law and Crime Facts
- A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
- About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
- According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
- Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
- Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
- It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
- Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.
- Most burglaries occur during the daytime!
- 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.
- Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
- No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
- Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
- Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
- Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
- The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
- The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.
- The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
- There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
