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I'm more concerned the Italian police were allowed to collect the DNA over 100 000 people in order to find the potential criminal. People don't seem to realize
by Fuxy 12y ago
I'm more concerned the Italian police were allowed to collect the DNA over 100 000 people in order to find the potential criminal.
People don't seem to realize how valuable and many times private DNA information really is otherwise a large number of them would have resisted this dragnet.
Am I the only one thinking this kind of large scale collection of DNA information should no be allowed without some very powerful circumstantial evidence.
Not just you happen to live in the same city a person was murdered in.
- cafard 12y agoThere was a series of murders in the north of England maybe 25 years ago that went unsolved. When DNA testing became available, the police essentially browbeat every male within plausible distance to be tested. They did solve the case. I'd have thought such questions would have been raised then, and perhaps they were.
- mikeash 12y agoSounds like this case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Pitchfork http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Pitchfork Particulary interesting to me is the fact that the initial mass screening did not find the perpetrator, because he had paid somebody to give a sample for him. But he was eventually caught because the stand-in couldn't (or didn't want to) keep a secret. Wikipedia mentions no controversy, although of course that doesn't mean there wasn't one.
- oh_sigh 12y agoMaybe people know, but don't care? I wouldn't mind submitting a DNA sample if it helps the police find a murderer. Maybe it was some distant cousin of mine, and my DNA will help them narrow their search.