Ward Stone at the last Save the Pine Bush Dinner had a got me thinking about an interesting proposal:

Require lead poisoning testing of anybody arrested and accused of a crime.💉

This seems like a really good idea. Withdrawing a little bit of blood might be painful for a criminal suspect, but if somebody has been arrested for a crime and is suffering from lead poisoning, it makes a lot of sense from a public safety perspective to know if they are being poisoned from lead — both so we can offer them treatment so they don’t commit further crime and to reduce future generations from engaging in crime from lead poisoning.