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Searching DNA For Relatives Raises Concerns
An anonymous reader calls our attention to California's familial searching policy, which looks for genetic ties between culprits and kin. The technique has come to the fore in the last few years, after a Colorado prosecutor pushed the FBI to relax its rules on cross-state searches. "Los Angeles Police Department investigators want to search the state's DNA database again — not for exact matches but for any profiles similar enough to belong to a parent or sibling. The hope is that one of those family members might lead detectives to the killer. This strategy, pioneered in Britain, is poised to become an important crime-fighting tool in the United States. The Los Angeles case will mark the first major use of California's newly approved familial searching policy, the most far-reaching in the nation."
and have never gotten a first post
L.A. is the nosiest, most evil, most corrupt city in the United States.
Rumor has it that the Dick Cheney's original plan for 9/11 was to attack L.A., but ultimately chose the East Coast targets because of the lack of sympathy and overall apathy an attack on L.A. would generate.
Which is unfortunate, beacuse the twin towers have fallen and the pentagon had that gaping hole with cruise missile debris(incidentally a PATRIOT missile) while the RIAA and MPAA, the rest of Hollywood and the Church of Scientology, and a few annoying and well-known celebrities all remain alive and standing.
Leave it to our intelligence services to bungle yet another clandestine operation.