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Aren't the politics required to enforce lead reduction the same that would tackle crime, though? I don't think there are many enviromentally-friendly corrupt pa

• lmm 13y ago
  Huhwhat? What's corruption got to do with it?
• wisty 13y ago
  You wouldn't think there were many corrupt religious parties either, but politics doesn't always work that way.
• jtheory 13y ago
  The crime reduction reliably occurs 20 (23, from the graph?) years after the lead reduction; there's no response in the crime rate until the less-lead-exposed babies have become adults. The politicians who tackled crime (or didn't, or did whatever) 20 years ago haven't been in power most of the time since then, generally. I've read about this theory before; it's impressive and (to me, at least) pretty persuasive.
  • originofspecie 13y ago
    To paraphrase a comment I made further up, banning lead in gasoline is a binary initiative that doesn't take a long time to initiate. Cracking down on crime is a longer process.