The Police can forcibly take DNA samples from you in a Police stations if you're arrested for ANYTHING and it's kept EVEN if you're not charged with anything!
Now heres a secnario for you. You leave your hair brush at the Leisure centre. The person who finds it is a criminal and when he commits his next crime he leaves YOUR hair all over the scene. As you're DNA is on the database you're automatically a suspect for a crime you never committed. Get it yet?
It sounds good in principle BUT it's not immune from abuse
2007-09-24 08:41:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
To all you fools who say you give your DNA you'll be sorry! George Orwell knew the score!
2007-09-24 08:51:34 · update #1
Tucksie you are very wrong
2007-09-24 08:52:06 · update #2
When this was first mooted I thought great idea, now we can catch all the criminals. Now I don't think so. Why? Because if you take it to its natural conclusion we would have no deterrent to crime. This is not as far fetched as it may first appear. Scenario..... everyone in the country is on a DNA base, a crime is committed, samples are taken, run through the base, hey presto we have the villain! What about all the "innocent" peoples DNA that is present at the scene? Is alright shouting alibi, but often there isn't one. What if you live alone and the crime is committed during the night and your alibi was that you were at home in bed. How do you "prove" that?. No need for police any more just thousands of DNA checkers. No need for Law and Order just get the samples and we have the criminal. Would save billions... getting the picture? We already have great faith in DNA as a means of proving guilt but that is because of it's uniqueness, if we have it on a massive scale it would have the opposite effect in my opinion. By all means take samples of everyone who is convicted of a criminal offence, they have forfeited their rights, leave the majority of law abiding citizens alone.
2007-09-24 09:24:16 · answer #1 · answered by Willow 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The only clear cut cases I would say DNA can solve 100% is random rapes by phsycos as the DNA would be inside the body. Other than that agree with you & people are ignorant. In the long run we will find DNA will actually waste police time by following soo many random leads, police will have an unstoppable power to pick & choose people they wish to arrest and the real criminals will go further underground. DNA will only make the game more ruthless, more violent, more political and involve more innocent people. However at present DNA is a v.good tool to use in solving crime and should not be ignored for the g8 work it can do. But to see it as the infallable crime buster is nothing more ignorant than believing in The Minority Report with Tom Cruise. Human beings talking, nosing around, asking questions will always be the best answer to solving crime. Mate don't worry people are stupid your get used to it after a while.
2007-09-24 09:14:47 · answer #2 · answered by A . Z . 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes but bare in mind DNA like all other evidence is a two edged sword. DNA sometimes can get a suspect, who did not commit a crime he is thought to have committed off when without that evidence that person could well have been unjustly found guilty of a crime he or she did not in fact commit..
2007-09-24 09:00:55 · answer #3 · answered by cimex 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's only the criminal side of the argument that we need to worry about, our DNA is not just about seeing who has done what, it goes to the core of the types of people we are.
Already in this country pregnant women are routinely screened to see if their babies have any 'abnormalities'. China faces an enormous population growth, and to try and control this it has become state policy for couples who have mental illness or epilepsy in the family to be denied permission to marry unless they agree to long term contraception or sterilisation.
At the high rate of population growth we also have here, coupled with scarce resources, how long would it be before the government either screened out 'undesirable' babies, or only encouraged couples with a clean genetic inheritance to have babies. It would be eugenics by the backdoor.
This is definitely not a case of 'If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear'
2007-09-24 10:06:15 · answer #4 · answered by smith.w6079 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's people like 'tucksie'who allow governments to get away with repressive legislation. piR8is correct and did you see the media report about the Police Muppet's who didn't forward DNA samples for two years and as a result a rapist attacked three other girls but it's okay as the cops have apologised.
2007-09-24 09:54:18 · answer #5 · answered by Rob Roy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the scottish police have to destroy any non-conviction samples, or so they say. They are, of course, also the police force that effed-up a fingerprint sample ( that of Shirley McKie ) accusing her of tampering with a crime scene, when she was nowhere to be seen. Ms McKie was also a police officer. Wrecked her career, her health, but justice eventually done.
Sleepwalking to a police state. Mostly on the back of tabloid hysteria - where it's never pointed out that DNA isn't the failsafe evidence that many would like us to believe.
;-)
2007-09-24 09:30:33 · answer #6 · answered by piR8 1 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Like you I have been saying this for years as many other people in Parliament have. A system such as they are trying to foist on us is not and will not be immune. it will be deliberately and cynically abused.
1984 is 20 odd years late but it's here it's here
2007-09-24 11:39:12 · answer #7 · answered by Scouse 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You're missing the point. Let's say the government has all our DNA on file. They can then just make anything they like illegal (they're already doing it, if you think about it). Then, if they want to put anyone (ANYONE) out of their way, there's no need for an investigation, they can just go and round them up.
Can't happen here? That's what they said in Germany in the 1920s.
Now, that's scary.
Oh, and to those who say "If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear", I say I do. I fear losing my freedom.
2007-09-24 12:14:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Just face it, in 10 or 20 years time the government will know everything about you. Even what your crap smells like, and will probably fine you for farting in public spaces. They may even ban farting indoors, and make you stand outside in the rain to do so, as it will pollute the atmosphere.
2007-09-24 08:54:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
that's what i said years ago and two nights ago again. they wont try to abuse it . they will abuse it . it is to easy to frame someone right now
i wont give mine period, id rather fight. next it will be chips under the skin,
no thank you
HARRY dont be a fool. your in a dream world
2007-09-24 08:46:26 · answer #10 · answered by IHATETHEEUSKI 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋