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The real targets here are the crime rates, and the diseases known to be side effects of lead poisoning. And the question is, can we use high level aggregates to
by sdenton4 11y ago
The real targets here are the crime rates, and the diseases known to be side effects of lead poisoning. And the question is, can we use high level aggregates to observe lead poisoning caused by industrial design decisions?
We've seen massive drops on the level of violent crime in the US (and beyond) over the last twenty or thirty years. And the attribution of that drop has huge ramifications. Should we double down on three-strikes laws, or can the drop be attributed to environmental factors like ambient lead levels due to leader gasoline?
What I see here is increased evidence for the lead poisoning hypothesis. We know that lead poisoning causes violent behavior; the evidence is indicating that elevated crime rates may be due to undiagnosed poisoning.
- Retric 11y agoA lot of crimes in prisons goes unreported, so total crime stats are harder to calculate. EX: Murder seems to clearly be down, male on male rape may be up.
- lostlogin 11y agoA lot of non prison crime goes unreported too - the classic unreported crime is rape. Here it suggests 68% is unreported. https://rainn.org/get-information/statistics/reporting-rates https://rainn.org/get-information/statistics/reporting-rates
- MacsHeadroom 11y agoFemale on male rape is up too, outside of prisons of course. Federal statistics in the past 4 years place unreported female on male rape about as high as all male on female rape. They still call it "made to penetrate" and classify it as 'mere' sexual assault though.