Law and Crime Facts

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    It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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    About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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    According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.
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    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.
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    Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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    Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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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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    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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