Lead + Children = Violent Crimes?
Posted by Michelle Moquin on January 8th, 2013
Good morning!
Lisa: What you posted the other day inspired me to look up what you may have read. I thought it was good to let my readers in on it as well. Thanks for broaching the topic!
Harris-Perry guest: Lead exposure in children correlated to violent crime
On Melissa Harris-Perry on Sunday, the host and her panelists discussed a recent Mother Jones article that presented evidence that lead exposure in children leads to lower I.Q.s and violent crime.
“The rise of emissions from leaded gasoline between the 1940s and the 1970s may have had a significant impact on the increase in crime rates from the 1960s through the late 1980s. When lead emissions went down, so did crime, with the appropriate time lag,” Harris-Perry said.
A similar correlation was found for teen pregnancy.
While correlation is not causation, findings show that “even the smallest bit of lead exposure has a significant effect of the I.Q. levels on the children under six.”
And, she said, her home in New Orleans lies in the middle of an area that shows high levels of lead in the soil and in old homes.
“Lead emissions mostly affect children, right, so it affects their brain development,” said Kevin Drum, political blogger for Mother Jones and author of the lead exposure article. “Now, we’ve known for a long time that lead affects I.Q. and school scores. But in the last ten years or so, there’s been a whole new line of evidence suggesting that it also affects areas of the prefrontal cortex of the brain. And those are areas that affect emotional regulation, judgment, impulse control, aggression. Things like that. All the things that you would think, hey, that might actually lead to more violent crime. And sure enough, when you look at the, when you look at the graphs you put up there, it sure does.”
He went on to cite a study that started in 1981 at the University of Cincinnati, which followed 400 children, measuring lead levels in their blood every six months.
“The higher the lead level [in the blood], the more likely to be arrested for violent crime,” Drum said.
Harris-Perry asked whether that might simply be because lead levels were higher in areas of poverty and other sociological indicators related to poor school performance and arrests of people “who are more likely to be policed.
Howard Mielke, research professor at the department of pharmacology at Tulane University, said that the most convinced data came from MRIs, which show brain damage in individuals with higher levels of lead as children.
“How much lead does it take to be lead poisoned?” Harris-Perry asked.
“Very small amounts,” Mielke said, going on to explain that children exposed to a mere six micrograms of lead daily are a focus of concern.
Harris-Perry voiced concerns over lawmakers and officials who could theoretically one day use that as evidence against people who haven’t even yet committed crimes.
Watch the video, via MSNBC, below.
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Readers: Thoughts? Blog me.
Florence: I read it. Interesting. And it is not surprising. I was talking to a friend of mine the other day who is pregnant with twins and she was telling me that she was reading how parents have gone so overboard in praising their kids – “You are so smart, good, talented”, etc., at whatever they do, that they (their kids) are basically getting lazy and not striving to be better. And if they aren’t told immediately that they are doing good at whatever, they quit early and don’t strive to better themselves, because they are not getting the praising responses they are used to getting so easily from their parents.
Zen Lill: Thanks for posting those links. I saw both of the videos – Kudos to the “dude” – Love what he had to say. And yes, more like him would be nice. Shocked when I listened to the harassment that Anita Sarkeesian received. The notes that were posted on her FB were so sickening and mysogynistic – this kind of speak is no game.
Congratulations to Sarkeesian for persevering in her passion for a job well done in far surpassing her goal, and thereby releasing 13 videos. Her strength and courage along with her loud voice to the world, she is most definitely a “Wonderful Woman Of The World”, yes?
PEace OUt.
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January 8th, 2013 at 12:56 pm
Hi Misch, yup he’s a good dude…and the harassment verbiage was over the top, waaaayyyy over…
I’d love to hear that some of the men readers here went and watched the video and understand just what the female ‘complaint’ is, if this young man can ‘get it’ so can any other man, it’s a matter of wanting to. We all know instinctively what’s ok and not ok, it’s just been ‘accepted’ to talk about women in unacceptable ways…yeah, no it isn’t – never was, but certainly not now, not anymore…
Good men – please, man up, speak up and stop the ‘boys will be boys’ chatter that is so harmful to women. It’s time to start taking care of the peeps who take care of you (we carried you around for 9 months it’s the least you can do, without us goddesses you wouldn’t even be here).
My favorite response, I call it ‘the broken record’ – used when someone says something rape culture-ish or just derogatory woman stuff such as all the slut/ho shit: ‘That’s just wrong, just stop. If you really think about what you just said, I’m sure you don’t mean that/it’ – if they say, oh I’m just being funny, etc…repeat (thus title: broken record) adding first ‘it’s not funny (or whatever they said), that’s just wrong, just stop…’ I say these things without anger, a charge or anything else just statement of fact.
Interestingly – men often have stopped and said ‘I’m sorry I offended you I didn’t realize you were so easily offended’. To this I say, ‘I have no charge about it, offended isn’t the correct word, I just don’t want you out spouting things that make you sound stupid and ignorant when I know you’re too smart to believe that BS about women.’
Oh yeah…they usually stand there gathering themselves together for a minute or two…it’s fun to watch, try it…but you must maintain a no charge, no judgement, ‘just helping to educate you’ type of demeanor. It’s not a good time to go on a rights rant unless they recuperate and ask questions, and that has happened with me, that’s why I still believe there are good men out there. And so, to all of you, don’t wait till you have to step in to prevent a rape in action and think you’re a hero, be a hero ahead of time and step in when the ignorant derogatory statements get bandied about…it’s called nipping it in the bud, good dudes.
Hmmm, do the same with OTW statements while your at it. You needn’t agree with everything a OTW says simply bc they’re OTW but isn’t it time to stop the nonsensical and cavalier inferior mistreatment of people who are not white and male? Seriously, it seems like an unbelievably childish conversation to even be having anymore.
Ok, I’ll get off my soapbox now : ) Luv, Zen Lill
January 8th, 2013 at 1:51 pm
I like you on a soap box Zen Lill.
January 8th, 2013 at 7:29 pm
Sometimes a guy just wants to get it on with his lady in a real bad way.
This marriage is fucking me up.
January 8th, 2013 at 7:32 pm
We can’t get a store in Venezuela to cash a $20 american note. What are we to do with this crate of twenties you sent us?
January 8th, 2013 at 7:39 pm
There is no reason for a person to have the capacity to shoot 10 or more bullets from a magazine.
Three of my friends love guns and they own that gun that killed the children in Newtown. Each one smiles as they show off the gun.
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I get sick and leave. My friends are fascinated by the fact that they know someone with that type of gun. Go figure.
January 8th, 2013 at 7:43 pm
The Mitt Romney Loophole
The basic principle underlying progressive taxation is that, generally speaking, the more you make, the higher your tax rate. The fiscal cliff deal passed last week made the tax code more progressive in one way by raising income tax rates on the wealthiest Americans, but unfortunately there remain numerous egregious examples of how our tax code is rigged in favor of the privileged few at the expense of middle-class workers.
Exhibit A in this rigged game is what we’ll call the Mitt Romney Loophole, a special giveaway that exclusively benefits private equity and hedge fund managers.
In wonk speak, it’s called the “carried interest” loophole. We’ll let our Center for American Progress colleagues explain:
The carried interest loophole allows people who manage investment funds—such as private equity funds and hedge funds—to convert their income into lower-taxed capital gains.
Here’s how it works: The partners in businesses that manage pools of money on behalf of investors are paid in two ways. One part of their income is a “management fee” for managing the investments.
This fee is generally taxed as ordinary income, according to progressive tax rates that currently top out at 39.6 percent. The other part of the fund managers’ income is their cut of the fund’s profits. The fund managers treat their part of the fund’s earnings as a capital gain, subject only to a top rate of 20 percent.
Investment managers, who include some of the world’s richest people, typically take a management fee equal to just 2 percent of the assets they manage—plus a 20 percent cut of their investors’ profits. In doing so, they are able to shield the bulk of their income from ordinary tax rates.
(You can find a more detailed explanation HERE.)
Lower tax rates on capital gains and dividends already disproportionately benefit the wealthiest Americans, but the Mitt Romney Loophole goes above and beyond that by allowing a narrow category of often extremely wealthy individuals to unfairly avoid paying their fair share.
This loophole is one of the main reasons that Mitt Romney paid a tax rate of just 13.9 percent on income of more than $20 MILLION. Meanwhile, millions of middle-class workers pay a much higher rate on their much, much lower salaries.
Closing this loophole would not only make our tax code fairer and more progressive, it would help raise the revenue that we need in order to protect vital programs and leave room in the budget for investments to grow the middle class. Closing just this one loophole that often benefits the ultra-wealthy would raise $21 BILLION over ten years.
January 8th, 2013 at 7:54 pm
Teddy I see your post and raise you one.
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Last year was officially the hottest ever recorded for the lower-48 states. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric tallied weather and temperature data for 2012, and found that the year was both the warmest and the second-most extreme for weather ever recorded for the contiguous U.S.
According to NOAA’s latest “State of the Climate” report, the average temperature for the lower-48 states was 55.3°, which is 3.2°F above the 20th century average, and 1.0°F above the previous record-year of 1998.
Last year was marked by an historic drought, above-average wildfires, multiple freak storms that wiped out power to millions, and multiple severe heat waves. According to the U.S. Climate Extremes Index, 2012 was the second most extreme year on record — coming in below 1998, the previous hottest year on record.
Precipitation was also down significantly in 2012. Average rainfall for the lower-48 states was 2.57 inches below average, contributing to the severe drought that gripped the nation and helping make the wildfire season the third most destructive on record.
January 8th, 2013 at 8:17 pm
There are 1900 sexual assaults against women in the military every year.
Obama what can you do about this?
January 8th, 2013 at 8:25 pm
How about the creepy piece of shit in Saudi Arabia who is 70 suing to get his 15 year old bride he paid a dowery for?
January 8th, 2013 at 8:36 pm
What is this Obama opportunity all these white men? Has he suddenly developed a taste for white dick in his mouth?
January 8th, 2013 at 9:29 pm
Chuck Hagel is wrong for Secretary of Defense on so many levels. When he was in the senate he voted against women in the military having access to abortion in cases of rape. He even voted against military women paying for it themselves on military bases.
This guy is sick when it comes to women. Look at the creep. If you were a non white woman would you trust him?
Obama needs a slap up side his head for this decision.
Jane
January 8th, 2013 at 10:06 pm
Why not make the Philippines the territory to be used for alien landing? The reception received by the Clrmons in 1918 which lasted until 1937 was exceptionally rewarding.
So rewarding that before leaving the Clrrmons put together a language from various tongues and gave the Philippines their national tongue, Tagalog as the foundation of the national language of their country.
We believe the philippines will be as gracious this time. Why would they not be grateful once we show them how we made Filipino a historical heritage and a medium of unity for their people.
Perhaps these humans will be a better group to associate with. They certainly taste better that all that white meat.
January 8th, 2013 at 10:24 pm
There is no Hindi word for rape in India. Sexual harassment in india is called eve teasing. indian men just don’t take sexual abuse of women seriously.
January 9th, 2013 at 6:25 am
Howie, I have missed your comments here. Last year from December 8 through December 16, everyday of Chanukah, I remembered your name during its holiday.
As you know it is the only holiday that does not appear anywhere in the bible. I chose it to remember you on because it is the longest of all our holidays, eight full days.
I did not miss a one remembering you. You have given me courage to do my duty every day. The least I can do is to remember you once a year for eight days.
I hope you are doing well.
Degana
January 9th, 2013 at 6:32 am
Michelle, the regulation of lead and copper did not begin until 1991 under the Lead and Copper Rule:
“Lead and copper enter drinking water primarily through plumbing materials. Exposure to lead and copper may cause health problems ranging from stomach distress to brain damage. On June 7, 1991, EPA published a regulation to control lead and copper in drinking water. This regulation is known as the Lead and Copper Rule (also referred to as the LCR or 1991 Rule).
The treatment technique for the rule requires systems to monitor drinking water at customer taps. If lead concentrations exceed an action level of 15 ppb or copper concentrations exceed an action level of 1.3 ppm in more than 10% of customer taps sampled, the system must undertake a number of additional actions to control corrosion.
If the action level for lead is exceeded, the system must also inform the public about steps they should take to protect their health and may have to replace lead service lines under their control.”
There is an Ancient American Indian Proverb that says: Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
January 9th, 2013 at 6:38 am
Michelle, I would like to share this article I read in the Prokerala News about lead poisoning.
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Leaded petrol led to violent crimes in the 1980s and 1990s, dropping steeply in the 2000s after declining level of its use, suggest a clutch of studies.
High lead levels have been tied to birth defects, lower intelligence and hearing problems. But now researchers are linking it to high levels of aggression.
Tulane University toxicologist Howard W. Mielke says high levels of lead exposure in children in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in a dramatic surge in crime two decades later. But crime rates dropped off with declining use of leaded gasoline, the Daily Mail reported.
Each metric tonne of lead released into the atmosphere, Mielke calculated, resulted in an increase of 1.59 aggravated assaults per 100,000. The results were millions more shootings, stabbings and beatings, the professor said.
The data was able to explain 90 percent of the rise and fall of crime rates in the cities studied. The link between lead and violence is relative new, as well.
Herbert Needleman, University of Pittsburgh researcher, conducted a 1996 study that showed that children with high lead levels were much more likely to exhibit aggressive behaviour than those with normal levels.
A 2002 study showed that arrested youths had far higher levels of lead in their bones, on average, than their non-delinquent peers.
Leaded fuel is still in use – but only in race cars, piston-powered airplanes and some off-road vehicles.
January 9th, 2013 at 6:45 am
Michelle, I found this article on lead poisoning and violent crime. It seems that the connection was known as far back as 2005. I wonder why we are just now hearing about it.
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Study links elevated lead levels to violent
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February 18, 2005
A U.S. researcher is arguing that the lead left in paint, water, soil and other sources may be having a greater impact on people’s behavior than realized. Elevated lead levels are known to affect children’s intelligence, but it might also be leading to antisocial and criminal behavior, according to Dr. Herbert Needleman.
The professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine said the U.S. government needs to do more to reduce lead levels in the environment.
According to Needleman, environmental lead entering a developing brain can disturb neural mechanisms responsible for regulation of impulse.
Citing several studies associating crime with high levels of lead in the bodies of those accused or in the environments they came from, one of the studies showed the average bone lead levels of 190 juvenile delinquents were higher than those of adolescents not charged with crimes.
In Needleman’s study, his team used a technique called X-ray fluorescence and found very low levels of lead in the bones of children. The study suggested between 18 percent and 38 percent of delinquent crimes in the Pittsburgh area could be attributed to lead toxicity in the adolescents.
Needleman thinks that a strategy to reduce crime would be to eliminate lead from the environment of children. He says lead exposure at doses below what is brought to medical attention is associated with increased aggression, disturbed attention and delinquency, which should make parents think more about their children’s possible lead exposure.
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I think lead poisoning as a cause of violent crime in our children has not been an important target because the right would rather invest money in private prisons than in crime prevention. The right is more interested in profit than in forcing the big corporations to find a safer metal to expose our youth to.
Carrie
January 9th, 2013 at 6:51 am
Michelle, this was a very good article to expose to the public. Very little attention has been given to lead poisoning in our environment and the dangers it poses to our children.
The scientific data coming in from 10, 20, 30 year studies done by some of our most revered scientific authorities all confirm that lead poisoning in children leads to violent crime.
Here is one from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and published in the journal PLoS Medicine.
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(NaturalNews) Children who are exposed to lead before the age of seven are significantly more likely to be arrested for violent crimes as adults, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and published in the journal PLoS Medicine.
Researchers used data from 250 women whose levels of lead had been measured while they were pregnant between 1979 and 1984, as well as lead measurements taken of the children up to the age of seven. These measurements were then compared with the Hamilton County, Ohio, adult arrest records of those children.
Fifty-five percent of those studied had been arrested at least once, with an average of five arrests between the ages of 18 and 24.
The researchers found that the higher a person’s blood levels at any time in childhood, the more likely they were to have been arrested as adults.
“The strongest association was with violent criminal activity: murder, rape, domestic violence, assault, robbery and possession of weapons,” researcher Kim N. Dietrich said.
Lead blood levels varied between four and 37 micrograms per decaliter, with each five microgram per decaliter increase at the age of six leading to a 50 percent rise in the chance of arrest as an adult.
The U.S. government recommends that blood levels of lead remain below 10 micrograms per decaliter. Approximately 310,000 children are believed to have levels above this threshold, however, while health professionals warn that even lower levels can be dangerous.
Lead is a known neurotoxin that can disrupt the development of children’s brains.
In a recent study conducted by researchers from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, people with high levels of lead exposure during childhood were found to have brains an average of 1.2 percent smaller than the average for the general population.
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Like the tobacco studies, this one on Lead is proving to be irrefutable. Lead poisoning causes our children to commit violent crimes. Congress needs to address this issue.
But with the republicans heading the House, it won’t happen.
January 9th, 2013 at 6:56 am
Michelle, I think you are on to something with this article. I read this on line.
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NEWSER) – Violent crime has fallen in the US for years, but why? Experts have floated theories ranging from police techniques to the “crack epidemic” to the legalizing of abortion, but none quite fit the facts. One, however, does: lead poisoning.
In Mother Jones, Kevin Drums reports that the rise and fall of leaded gasoline directly mimics the arc of violent crime in America, on a 23-year time lag. In fact, studies show the same correlation in countries around the world, six US cities, and even a New Orleans neighborhood. “When they overlay [lead concentrations] with crime maps,” says one researcher, “they realize they match up.”
The science fits, too: Many studies link lead intake with lower IQs, delayed development, and a propensity to commit crimes later in life. Of course millions of children who inhaled lead from car tailpipes between the 1940s and the 1970s didn’t become criminals, but those on the margin “were pushed over the edge from being merely slow or disruptive to becoming part of a nationwide epidemic of violent crime,” writes Drums.
The clincher: Lead molecules still lurk in our soil and an estimated 16 million US houses. Cleaning them up would cost billions, but save far more in the long run, Drums writes: It “could turn out to be the cheapest, most effective crime prevention tool we have. And we could start doing it tomorrow.”
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Why hasn’t this been discussed more by the media. I suspect because it is not something the elite want to hear. They would prefer to think that more guns will prevent crime rather than a clean up of the environment of lead poisoning.
January 9th, 2013 at 6:58 am
We actually know quite a bit about the long term brain damage of heavy metals in general, including lead and mercury. Children with lead poisoning are often quite disruptive in a family because they are highly irritable, and just seem to lag in emotional maturity and judgment.
Because of their tendency to spin out of control, they need a lot of routine and structure, as well as close supervision for longer than other children.
The biggest problems happen when the parents are not at home supervising, are ignorant of the reasons for the child’s volatility—and think they have a devil child, or the parents are just have no idea how to be calm, structured and consistent.
Of course when you think about it, not only were the poor kids more likely to get poisoned—they live in the old neighborhoods and parents drove old cars that used lead gasoline—but their home life probably is more chaotic and unsupervised.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:00 am
What they have done is found strong correlation in multiple situations, a stronger correlation than many other more obvious explanations.
Yes, as many say correlation does not prove causation but the stronger the correlation the more likely that the one of the two things cause the other or that the two items have the same cause.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:02 am
Some people live in fear of rising crime rates even though most crime is down. The same people are up in arms about high taxes even though taxes are at a historic low. It’s almost as if some people are being deliberately misled.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:03 am
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. One might as well say that violent behavior led to a physical craving for lead. As a “survivor” of many years’ exposure to lead, running a service station, I never noticed violent tendencies or diminished intelligence in anyone who worked with me – or in myself, for that matter.
In fact, the advent of lead-free gasoline seems to track closely the rise in overall violence in our society. What can the “experts” make out of that association? More rubbish, in all likelihood.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:04 am
Luis #22, it’s the result of the fear-mongering by corporate news and especially by Fox ‘News’ whose viewers are shown to know less about current events the more they watch that station.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:07 am
Morris #23;
Your second sentence lacks logic – the violent behavior lags the lead by 23 years, it says, so violent behavior cannot cause a craving for lead. And if the advent of lead-free gasoline followed the leaded stuff by 20-25 years, that would explain that coincidental correlation mentioned in your second last sentence. Think about it.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:10 am
Morris, you do not have very much knowledge of how knowledge works.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:12 am
Statistics are not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:14 am
Morris, You sound like you’ve been in contact with a little lead in YOUR life. :)
January 9th, 2013 at 7:15 am
That, or the master from the Kung Fu tv show.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:16 am
Morris #23, maybe you should read the studies. If the same pattern shows up not only in America but around the world that tells you something is going on.
Lead poisoning is a well documented cause of all kinds of brain damage and therefore behavioral issues.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:17 am
You people are fucking insane. A certain demographic is the real cause of crime.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:18 am
John #31;
Are you referring to those who commit crimes?
January 9th, 2013 at 7:19 am
I’m guessing Mole People, John. It’s Mole People, isn’t it?
January 9th, 2013 at 7:21 am
Perhaps a rise in the consumption of bananas, eh John?
January 9th, 2013 at 7:22 am
Which demographic would that be, John? Blacks? Hispanics? poor people? Children of single parents? People on welfare?
The unemployed? Alcoholics? Drug users? If you’re going to make statements like that back them up.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:25 am
Teresa, knowing the way this country is run. That would be the demographic with the highest exposure to lead toxicity. Who cares what they are exposed to.
And if it is discovered, there is never any government money to come to their aid. Most of that money is needed to subsidize the wealth corporate interests like big oil and mega farming.
January 9th, 2013 at 8:50 am
K7i43, make you way to the Paraná Plateau’s western edge. We will send a pick up from Brazil( K88j43) or from Argentina(K7i44).
Continue present means of communication. Under no circumstances use larconiche.
January 9th, 2013 at 10:25 am
Degana /14 today :-)
I appreciate you thinking about me duribg the Chanukah holiday. I think about Israel every day. Especially recently because Iran will soon have the atom bomb and the means to deliver them very soon, yet the world and especially the USA is in denial about how dangerous Iran can beome. Their first 2 targets are ISRAEL and the UNITED STATES.
They will soon have the ability to start WORLD WAR and cause a Muslim vs Christan and Jew nuclear strike that will escalate into World War III.
This threat should be wiped out before it becomes reality. This is just my opinion, but i strongly believe Iran’s nuclear weapons must be targeted and the entire world will be a little safer. Ijust believe this should be at the top of the list of dangers to Humanity.
HOWIE