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> If the police felt free to use it in an assault case, why not shoplifting, trespassing or littering? For the same reason dna tests are not already used for
by mikkom 7y ago
> If the police felt free to use it in an assault case, why not shoplifting, trespassing or littering?
For the same reason dna tests are not already used for shoplifting, trespassing or littering?
- MichaelApproved 7y agoAnd that reason is...?
- dragonwriter 7y agoDNA has almost no probative value in those cases, since they almost never involve a sample which can be genotyped that has a high probability of being linked to a particular crime.
- JulianMorrison 7y agoCost, which is falling. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_curve )