{"id":8766,"date":"2017-03-27T23:42:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T04:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8766"},"modified":"2017-03-28T09:38:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:38:54","slug":"getting-the-lead-out-ctd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/27\/getting-the-lead-out-ctd-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting The Lead Out, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Drum continues his coverage on the environmental lead leads to crime beat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.motherjones.com\/files\/blog_nevin_albama_prison_population.jpg?resize=377%2C231\" width=\"377\" height=\"231\" \/>As predicted by the lead-crime theory, the prison population of younger cohorts (15-25) has dropped the most. The 26-30 cohort is flat, and the older cohorts are making up a bigger proportion of the total prison population. Why? Because everyone under 30 grew up in a fairly lead-free environment, so they&#8217;re less likely to commit serious crimes than similar cohorts in the past. 35-year-olds grew up at the tail end of the lead era, and are still moderately crime prone. Older cohorts were heavily lead poisoned as kids, and they&#8217;ve remained more crime prone even as they&#8217;ve grown older.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Truth be told, it&#8217;s easier to clean up the lead than to change how we parent our families, so this is a seductive theory. Doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s wrong or right, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Drum continues his coverage on the environmental lead leads to crime beat: As predicted by the lead-crime theory, the prison population of younger cohorts (15-25) has dropped the most. The 26-30 cohort is flat, and the older cohorts are making up a bigger proportion of the total prison population. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/27\/getting-the-lead-out-ctd-3\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8779,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions\/8779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}