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California Initiative to Expand DNA Database

Posted by michael on from the we-promise-it-will-only-be-used-for-good dept.

vervais_sucks writes "A California attorney is personally bankrolling, to the sum of $1.3m, an initiative to require law enforcement to take DNA samples of every person they arrest for a felony." The (lengthy) initiative is available here (search for DNA on the page).

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  1. Everyone they arrest? by MacFury · · Score: 5, Funny
    What if you are arrested but innocent and subsequently not convicted of the original crime you were arrested for? Would they have to destroy the sample?

    Perhaps some cop looking for a promotion would just plant some DNA evidence at the scene to make sure you get convicted.

    I'd have to say if a cop told me to give him a DNA sample, I'd respond "blow me" :-)