In America, it is a federal crime to use your roommate or friend’s Netflix account.
100 Mind-Blowing Crime Facts
In New Jersey, it’s illegal to wear a bulletproof vest while committing a violent crime.
Murder rates rise in summer. Ever feel angry or in a bad mood when the weather is hot? Well, you’re not alone. Violent crime goes up in hotter weather, and in the US, murder rates reportedly rose by 2.7 per cent over the summer.
A French pig was executed for killing a child. A pig from the Middle Ages was tied to a crime involving murder. The pig was said to have come in contact with a child’s face which caused complications due to the injuries. Ultimately, this led to the death of the 3-month-old child. The pig was sent to jail and eventually publicly executed.
Mexican prisons do not punish you for non-violent attempts to escape. This is because it is part of human nature to want freedom, and therefore is not seen as a crime. However, factors such as property damage and violence will cause prison guards to practice the necessary punishments.
Quebec City, Canada has a low crime rate. This is one of the safest cities in Canada. It also has the same crime rate as Disney World.
Around 70% of virus programmers are said to allegedly work under a strict contract for crime syndicates. Their jobs are to constantly detect vulnerabilities within their own company and try to find a way to block unwanted breaches out. There is often a black-or-white scale in the world of virus programming.
Hundreds of pirate attacks occur each year. Worldwide the Piracy Reporting Crime Centre (PRC) recorded several 200 armed pirate robberies in 2018. However, most of these attacks go undocumented. This is 180 times more than the total number of attacks in 2017.
The Netherlands has to import criminals to fill up their jails. Since 2004, the Netherlands’ crime rate has only gotten lower and lower. In 2013, a prison shut down because there were no criminals to put behind bars. This low crime rate makes this country one of the safest places on the planet.
Skydiving on a Sunday is illegal for single women in Florida. Unmarried women who are caught committing this “crime” can face imprisonment or subject to fines.
A koala’s fingerprints are so similar to human fingerprints that they could taint a crime scene.
In the past 5 years, there have been over 2.2 million complaints about Internet crime to the FBI (FBI IC3): According to the Internet Crime Complaints Centre – or IC3, the number of complaints issued to the centre has increased significantly in the last five years. Around 2.2 million complaints were recorded in 2020. The FBI notes this is a significant increase since the beginning of 2016. What’s more, the cost of cyber-attacks is higher too. In 2016, complaints of hacking and cybercrime accounted for around $1.5 billion in losses. In 2020, the complaints accounted for around $4.2 billion.
Over 80% of attacks are financially motivated (Verizon): For the last several years, Verizon’s reports on the hacking and cybercrime landscapes have revealed the number one motivator for attacks is finances. In 2020, the number of financially motivated attacks far outweighed the number of attacks prompted by reasons like espionage. The most common figures behind hacking attacks are those in the organised crime world. Organised criminal syndicates account for around 80% of all attacks. Verizon notes only around 5% of attacks in North American organisations in 2020 were motivated by espionage, while 3% were motivated by grudges, often involving former employees.