Obama wants DNA samples from everyone arrested
From Ace of Spades:
Not charged, not convicted, just arrested.
Big Brother
Wants Your DNAOf course anyone could be arrested for anything at anytime and held for 24 hours then simply released. Theoretically, they could systematically roll through the whole population doing that.
Will the police be interested in doing this? Probably not. If Obama were to push this, and get it into law, the police would likely view it as an unfunded federal mandate. The bureaucratic and lab infrastructure needed to implement such a scheme pervasively would be truly massive. The 2006 FBI UCR says that over 14,000,000 arrests of all sorts happened in the USA that year (not counting traffic violations). That's over 38,000 arrests/day on average.
Clearly, the lab capacity to handle that number of DNA samples daily and physically process them is non-trivial. Of course, for those samples to have any future legal value, everything would have to be handled with rigid chain of custody procedures, and original physical samples warehoused under lock and key.
Impact on things like witness protection programs and such is plainly a concern as well. A host of privacy and potential abuse issues are so obvious they don't even need mention.
A thought exercise: Imagine if a Republican president had proposed this?
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Will the police be interested in doing this? Probably not.
For now.
Good point. Once depts. start getting kickbacks from Labs, this thing will take off like gangbusters.
THIS is precisely why those labeled as dangerous subversive fringe freaks known as the Oath Keepers came into existence.
"even absent charges or a conviction" ...imagine what Jefferson would be saying, or Sam Adams.
And the ACLU says?
Hello?
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