tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977100937974295832.post2536475503817110802..comments2023-10-03T12:32:51.778-04:00Comments on Confessions of a Street Pharmacist: Lead paint?Divemedichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583007051962299381noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977100937974295832.post-7834141050367760312015-10-27T09:47:06.941-04:002015-10-27T09:47:06.941-04:00Got the lead out of gasoline too.
There is at lea...Got the lead out of gasoline too.<br /><br />There is at least one study (international in scope) that looks at the correlation between leaded gas and violence and crime since different countries stopped at different times.<br /><br />in the end, it's probably not one thing, but a matrix of interrelated things.<br /><br />nick<br /><br />BTW, the abortion thing made sense to me, but then 'broken windows policing' did too, on first glance. Now I'm convinced that broken windows was nothing but an excuse to go after low hanging fruit, and a license to harass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977100937974295832.post-57810309264008833802015-10-25T11:51:53.744-04:002015-10-25T11:51:53.744-04:00Very interesting. Without having read actual pape...Very interesting. Without having read actual papers and looked at their data, we're left with gut hunches. The case for lead being a major factor seems pretty solid. But what about Mercury? "Mad as a hatter" comes from mercury toxicity, too. Mercury restriction was also part of the late '70s cleanup. The "Freakonomics" abortion hypothesis always smelled funny to me, but without real data, I didn't have any way to look at it. Likewise the glib comments about community policing don't seem right when everywhere I read about cities and localities struggling to pay for the policing they have. <br /><br />I think the answer is multi-factorial. <br /><br />I think lead is a part of it and maybe even most of the decline, as Jessica Reyes says. I've never seen any of the major explanations (like the summary of 10 studies you link to) include the deterrent effect of concealed carry. <br /><br />So maybe lead control, mercury control, and concealed carry could account for the vast majority of the crime decline? <br /><br /><br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.com