Crime rates are at an all-time low in most places. So is leaded gasoline. Coincidence?

[JaneyVee]

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In states where consumption of leaded gasoline declined slowly, crime declined slowly. Where it declined quickly, crime declined quickly.

Gasoline lead may explain as much as 90 percent of the rise and fall of violent crime over the past half century.

When differences of atmospheric lead density between big and small cities largely went away, so did the difference in murder rates.

The rest: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline

[loyalsister]

1. A guy on the maintenance team for my apartment building got fired a few months ago

For stealing gas.