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519783 
Journal Article 
Water fluoridation and crime in America 
Seavey, J 
2005 
Yes 
Fluoride
ISSN: 0015-4725 
38 
1 
11-22 
English 
WOS:000227899300002 
A four-part study explores possible connections between water fluoridation and crime in America. Part A, Media-reported crime database and fluoridation, presents an observational database of violent crimes, mostly multiple shootings, and finds an unusually high percentage of them associated with water fluoridation, suggesting the existence of a "fluoride-related" category of crime. A low-end threshold for the toxic effects of fluoridation of 0.3 ppm is identified, and the term "fluoridated" is defined here as having a fluoride level of 0.3 ppm or higher. In Part B, Online crime database and fluoridation, a published database of year 2000 crime data for 327 US cities over 75,000 population, representing 80 million Americans, was expanded to include fluoridation data for these cities. Water fluoridation was consistently associated with high crime rates at all population levels. Part C, Book crime database and fluoridation, examines year 2000 crime statistics for six major crimes in the same 327 cities according to their fluoridation status. Cities having natural fluoridation, or which use silicofluorides or sodium fluoride, are shown to have substantially higher crime levels than nonfluoridated cities. Part D, Lead related crime, quantifies the amount of crime historically associated with lead intoxication, thus identifying a remainder which may be associated with fluorides. This study presents a data-backed hypothesis about one possible cause of crime; it is not a definitive statement about crime causality. 
crime; fluoridation; fluoride toxicity; lead toxicity; school; shootings; USA; childrens intelligence; aluminum-fluoride; drinking-water; lead levels; exposure