{"entry":{"title":"Can the Presence of Lead Explain Crime Trends?","date":"Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:00:00 -0600","author":"K. Drum, Mother Jones","description":"
When Rudy Giuliani ran for mayor<\/span> of New York City in 1993, he campaigned on a platform of bringing down crime and making the city safe again. It was a comfortable position for a former federal prosecutor with a tough-guy image, but it was more than mere posturing. Since 1960, rape rates had nearly quadrupled, murder had quintupled, and robbery had grown fourteenfold. New Yorkers felt like they lived in a city under siege.<\/p>","original_link":"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2013\/01\/lead-crime-link-gasoline?page=1"}}