Frightening

[fixitflav]

Anybody noticed this thread is from 2019?

 

[SPLINE]

Anybody noticed this thread is from 2019?

Yes, it was Odds who resurrected it. Why?

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Yes, it's everywhere now. Walking through my local shopping centre the other day, there were a couple of yoofs on a bench blatantly puffing away. Not exactly subtle as that stuff stinks and fag smoke is much more pleasant in comparison. I smell it walking past people's houses too. It's just another sign of the decline in society, anything goes.

In some ways I suppose they're less trouble doped up than if they're wasted on scrumpy or Wife Beater. But what may seem harmless is part of a much bigger network of criminality. Rudy Giuliani, mayor of NYC some years ago, realised that if you tackle head-on the low level crimes, the more serious crimes will look after themselves. He was proven correct with a big drop in crime levels.

It's getting worse and now a little farcical since I wrote the above. Brother was walking through the local church graveyard the other day. There was a community payback group (modern day chain gang of crims pretending to give something back to the community) working in the graveyard. The crims were being 'supervised' by a couple of flaky social worker types. One of the miscreants had taken it upon himself to stop for a smoke break. Brother said he was leaning against a gravestone having a spliff. You couldn't make this schidt up!

 

[King Billy]

. You couldn't make this schidt up!

You just did.

 

[JohnD]

It is essential for politicians, police and prisons to reject this explanation, because, if true, it would make their life's policies meaningless.

 

[Odds]

No, it isn't.

I have yet too see a better explanation than the removal of lead from petrol, which can be tracked in different cities and different countries, and the date of crime reduction is earlier or later depending on the date of lead removal.

It is essential for politicians, police and prisons to reject this explanation, because, if true, it would make their life's policies meaningless.

https://journals.openedition.org/champpenal/448

An interesting angle i hadn't heard before, so i looked up the UK statistics related to this and found [when] the UK phased out leaded petrol in stages, culminating in a total sales ban at the pump by January 2000. Following this transition, population-wide blood lead levels plummeted, and the UK experienced a significant, decades-long drop in crime rates—particularly for violent and property crimes.

Needless to say, cannabis consumption has risen since then.