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[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

lead poisoning. I know its a meme but exposure to lead does increase the likelihood youll do crimes and they took it out of the gasoline and ever since the crime rates are going down. As the people who were exposed to it via car exhaust are slowly getting old, and dying. Old people do less crime, and dead people dont do any crime at all.

[–] ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 days ago

Lead might have something to do with it, I would personally suggest its better tied to the economy of China though, the 90s where a shit time marked by a large economic crisis in China due to the fall of the USSR; the reduction in crime is imo, more down to the stabilizing force that Deng and Xi had post-USSR.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

and dead people dont do any crime at all.

A perfect alibi 🤔