[Justin Moore]

http://www.kcautv.com/global/story.asp?s=1073522&ClientType=Printable

D-N-A dragnet in serial killer case raising privacy questions






Baton Rouge, Louisiana-AP -- Investigators hunting a serial killer in Louisiana are casting a wide D-N-A dragnet -- one that's raising some eyebrows.

Investigators have swabbed the mouths of nearly one thousand men. Some complained the test is too invasive, but they went ahead rather than risk being branded a suspect.

One man says police threatened to make his name public if he didn't give a saliva sample.

An official with the state's chapter of the A-C-L-U says "people are assumed guilty until they're proven innocent."

Four women have been slain in 15 months -- three of them in Baton Rouge, the other about 50 miles away. F-B-I profilers believe the killings are linked, and that their suspect is a white male.


:scrutiny:

For your 'safety'?

[Blackhawk]

Harbinger of the future. DNA will replace fingerprints, and the acceptance of fingerprinting in the past will be the "teaspoon of sugar to make the medicine go down."

[TarpleyG]

Agreed, but you still don't have to submit to a fingerprinting if you don't want to. There is coercion (sp?) by the LEO.

[F4GIB]

Talk about a wide net.

"All" drug dealers are "young, black men."

"All" serial killers are "not-so-young, white men."

Profiling at this level of generality, if it can even be called that, doesn't appear to be a very effective investigative tool.

[TheeBadOne]

I think quite a few states take DNA samples from convicted sex offenders now.

[Betty]

One man says police threatened to make his name public if he didn't give a saliva sample.

:scrutiny: :fire:

[Selfdfenz]

Never give a DNA sample unless you are given a search warrant to obtain one with your name on it. Since they have no probable cause for you in a particular, they will not be able to get one in all likelyhood. So resist.
If they release your name. So what! You'll get to call them JBTs on the 5:00 o'clock news and you will be right. This could be the start of a new and brilliant career for you as an advocate against the every expanding and unchecked powers of the Police State.
More people will resist next time round if they find out!

My guess is the LE org in charge would never dare let on that people were successfully resisting in numbers and were entitled to do so.

Even the BGs are served with search before LE can get a sample and that is when the BG IS the SUSPECT and already in jail!
S-

[DeltaElite]

Shouldn't the DNA from the victims have told them already the suspects ethnicity?

I too don't care for the psych profiling, look how effective it was in the DC sniper incident. :rolleyes:

Coercing people into giving samples is wrong, just plain wrong. :mad:

[Selfdfenz]

"Shouldn't the DNA from the victims have told them already the suspects ethnicity?'

No.

Not with the systems most commonly in use today. But. What you posit is very likely just around the corner.

S-

[DeltaElite]

Thanks SD.
I thought the technology was already to that level.
Like you said, someday it will be, not sure if that's good or bad.

[PATH]

As I keep saying, our society is getting more Orwellian by the day.
I can only imagine what they'll do next the name of safety.:fire: