![]() ![]() Previously, Kendall County had suffered a plague of bank robberies, thefts, and bootlegging that was all reported in the local press, a situation that would continue until World War II calmed things down considerably. All the robbers wanted was money, rejecting the bill fold and the papers it contained.” Bell was accompanied by his wife, who was not molested. He was robbed of about seventeen dollars on Route 22 near Normantown. Bell was one of the victims of the bandits during the 10 holdups in Kane and Kendall counties on Wednesday evening, Nov. ![]() As the Kendall County Record reported on Nov. Route 30 between Plainfield and Aurora when a pair of road agents held them up. Sheldon Bell and his wife were motoring along what is today U.S. Here in Kendall County, for instance, back in November 1933, Oswego dentist Dr. One of his henchmen was secretly buried just outside Oswego after he was shot during a Minnesota robbery attempt. John Dillinger and his gang were not unfamiliar with Kendall County. One of the worst crime waves to strike the country took place in the 1920s and 1930s as well-armed gangs used the new mobility conferred by a combination of fast, dependable automobiles and ever-better roads robbed banks, businesses, and even individuals all over the country. ![]() Not that leaded gasoline was responsible for all the nation’s past crimes, of course. No safe level of lead in the human bloodstream exists given that any amount can contribute to deleterious health issues.” The folks over at Wikipedia have a good, concise entry on the theory, the nut of the piece being: “Individuals exposed to lead at young ages are more vulnerable to learning disabilities, decreased I.Q., attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and problems with impulse control, all of which may be negatively impacting decision making and leading to the commission of more crimes as these children reach adulthood, especially violent crimes. The decline in crime began a few years after leaded gasoline was banned in the U.S. One of the most interesting is the theory that lead levels in the atmosphere all over the country due to lead in gasoline was responsible for the crime increase to begin with. The reasons for the steady decrease in violent crime seem to be many and controversial. In 2019, the last year for which statistics have been compiles, there were an average of 366.7 violent crimes committed in the U.S. The caveat is, of course, that the murder rate during the Covid pandemic has gone up in certain areas, but overall violent crime has been on a steady decline.Īccording to the latest statistics compiled and released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in 1991, there were an average of 758.2 violent crimes committed for every 100,000 people in the U.S. as reported to the FBI is actually down significantly from what it was 20 years ago. Although you wouldn’t know it from the coverage it gets in the news, the rate of violent crime in the U.S. ![]()
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