Why don't these people just say they just want us all fingerprinted and our DNA on file...it would save so much time.
Myself, I feel DNA is one of the most personal things we have, and the state has no right to it. To take it from someone who is just only "charged" with a crime is a gross violation of personal rights.
So of course the state will find ways of getting it anyway.."ooo sorry, you're not guilty, but thanks for the DNA!"
For three months, court employees across Canada have been knocking on doors and going into prisons to get DNA samples from thousands of violent criminals who initially slipped through the fingers of the country's rapidly growing DNA database.
Already the unique genetic code of roughly one in 250 Canadians is in the data bank. But police say that's not nearly enough.
Toronto police Chief Bill Blair hopes that, as soon as 2011, police will have the power to demand DNA samples from anyone charged – not just convicted – of serious crimes.
"DNA doesn't discriminate," said Blair. "It's a revolutionary crime-fighting tool."
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