In 2013, SDPD paid $35,000 to settle a lawsuit involving a 2011 incident where officers improperly collected DNA without cause from five family members of a parolee.
But what happens to the collected DNA? Deleted from the database?
And this DNA collection campaign is not just happening in San Diego, CA, but in other areas of the country. Florida, I've heard, is very active in this area.
By the way, this is similar to how cops gave young, black men criminal records in the years after civil rights victories.
Going around black neighborhoods arresting young, black men on spurious charges just to give them criminal records.
But I think the effects of this will be much worse, because a rouge cop with someones DNA is really bad news. How do you prove it was not your DNA at the crime scene?
The collected DNA is almost never destroyed, and may be shared with any number of state, local, or federal agencies as part of an opaque network of databases.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 50.4 ms ] threadBut what happens to the collected DNA? Deleted from the database?
And this DNA collection campaign is not just happening in San Diego, CA, but in other areas of the country. Florida, I've heard, is very active in this area.
By the way, this is similar to how cops gave young, black men criminal records in the years after civil rights victories.
Edited: DNS to DNA.
Can you expand on that? What were cops doing right after civil rights victories.
But I think the effects of this will be much worse, because a rouge cop with someones DNA is really bad news. How do you prove it was not your DNA at the crime scene?
Edit: You'll have to excuse my French, but I couldn't think of a more succinct response.