Police retaining DNA on a register?Innocent or not
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Originally Posted by Mick
if they are not found guilty let the person go and delete the evidence collected about them.
Originally Posted by Mick
Just use the DNA database from convicted criminals only! - No question! - I don't understand why you ask! - I want the correct person caught for the crime every time, I don't want cases solved by putting 'someone' away for it when it wasn't them who commited the offence,
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Therefore the correct person will be identified regardless of whether he is a career criminal or an opportunist
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Originally Posted by Dracoro
As you well know, the majority of crimes, especially ones like burglary, are committed by a relatively small number of career criminals. Most of these you'll already have the dna for. Most crimes are committed by those that have already had a brush with the law anyway and as you say you have the dna for these. Getting the dna en masse from the general public is unlikely to help you much. Aha I hear you say, what about rapists, murderers etc. who've not brushed with the law? Well, in these cases you already put a lot of resources into catching and on the whole succeed (according to your employers) so you'd catch them anyway.
Originally Posted by Dracoro
On the subject of dna, did you know that a strand of dna found in, say, London would match 10 people, that's TEN people you could put away and it was only one of those ten that may have committed it (it could be none!).
Originally Posted by Dracoro
There is great benefit in the use of dna but it must NOT be overstated, mass screening of dna will reap little benefits (most crims already 'in the books')
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