Posted on 07/09/2007 1:32:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Crime is going to be a big issue over the next several years.
“lead poisoning accounts for much of the variation in violent crime in the United States.”
Apparently, lead poisoning must be on the increase then.
I thought it was because of Dinkins’ police initiatives...or was it Clinton’s COPS program? Certainly there’s NO chance the mayor of New York had anything to do with it....
I guess Camden NJ is now the Lead capital of the world!
Violent crime is down because of:
(1) Giuliani and other mayors implementing Jack Maple's CompStat program for tracking crimes and punishing QOL violations, and
(2) Putting more violent criminals behind bars for longer.
Bingo! I still remember reading newspaper story after newspaper story about how people were confounded that while crime is dropping, more people are in prison longer. They couldn't figure out the connection and that if you keep criminals in prison they don't commit crimes!
Proper application of lead delivered at high velocity can stop a crime.
Houston’s crime rate has gone up and up for nearly a decade.
Explain the science behind that without blaming our mayors and police/crime lab.
Also, the fall of the Berlin Wall was due to the fact that the East Germans had started using an inferior grade of Mortar back in the mid-1980’s.
/S
I'd be quite happy if Rudy had challenged Hillary for the US Senate in either 2000 or 2006, New York would be much better off with him in that position, and the country would be better off if she had simply been defeated, and living back in Illinois after the divorce...
FWIW-not much. this is a most pathetic situation, when they have to reach this far....crime isn’t the fault of the criminal. it’s a result of an environmental factor, which could have been prevented if only everyone had the same income.
Not worth much. :)
I was young when Guiliani first came in, but even I remember the lib press screaming because he took the homeless off the benches and the squeegee men off the streets.
Just the fact the left hated him so much indicated to me he was doing good. I remember all the hospital workers protesting in the streets before the election, crying Doom! if Guiliani won.
The night he one I remember the anchor! very upset on TV saying, “You people are going to get what you deserve.” He couldn’t believe NYer’s voted for a Republican. He was black, so he probably thought all the minorites would be dragged out into the streets.
The way this study is applied here could be disproved rather simply by correlating the current crime rates in high crime cities and those with recent sustained increases with lead paint exposure.
Hey, I wonder if the New Orleans evacuees brought lead paint exposure with them to Houston?
But he wasn't the Batman like his groupies insinuate he was.
“Nevin does not say lead is the only factor behind crime, but he says it’s the biggest.”
I quit reading there. Upbringing and role-modeling is the biggest, imo
LOL!
"Lead... both the cause and solution to crime."
And sending in thousands of Katrina criminals isn't helping.
Respect for human life throughout every stage of development should be of paramount concern to all people. Especially Presidential candidates attempting to garner the nomination of America’s major pro-life party.
Giuliani isn’t qualified to be the GOP nominee, for a myriad of reasons.
They are! Problem is, it is traveling at high speed in a very directional manner.
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