The correlation between lead and violence holds at the international, national, state, and neighborhood levels. Hard to see the national culture lining up with international and neighborhood studies, not to mention the lead/crime correlation within the states ties specifically to lead gasoline policies whereas the culture change should have broader impacts across several states or regions.
I'm not doubting the lead argument, I agree with you there. I was just responding to Juan's point about earlier decades being regarded as safer, when statistics say otherwise.
Weird that violence dropped at the same rate in places with more cops and less cops, and more drugs or less drugs.
I wonder if it is because crimes in general are more violent today. In the past, thugs usually just took your wallet and fled. Today they might shoot you before they run away.
What are you basing these statistics on? I think there are far more robberies that don't involve assault and murder than ones that do.
I did this exact same thing every Monday night last semester. I never once felt like I was in danger.
