04-10-2017, 11:42 PM
There are advantages and disadvantages with dna/microphones/etc.
Once the community views police as an occupying army of snoopers weilding cotton swabs, public confidence dims and criminals get more confident because no one snitches or even reports suspicions.
DNA testing is no longer all that expensive or time consuming. I certainly think felons should be swabbed and maybe lesser offenders also. Mere arrestees probably not.
Some police departments object to being billed for fingerprint searches and electronic equipment in unified court systems, some counties look askance at how much jails cost to hold pretrial detainees.
Most people favor offender sex registries but do not realize most offenders are not in those registries and the registries are woefully time consuming.
CODIS is great, but there have been no 'hits' in twenty years. Untested rape kits still linger on shelves in many areas. The reasons are perhaps financial but more likely political.
Once the community views police as an occupying army of snoopers weilding cotton swabs, public confidence dims and criminals get more confident because no one snitches or even reports suspicions.
DNA testing is no longer all that expensive or time consuming. I certainly think felons should be swabbed and maybe lesser offenders also. Mere arrestees probably not.
Some police departments object to being billed for fingerprint searches and electronic equipment in unified court systems, some counties look askance at how much jails cost to hold pretrial detainees.
Most people favor offender sex registries but do not realize most offenders are not in those registries and the registries are woefully time consuming.
CODIS is great, but there have been no 'hits' in twenty years. Untested rape kits still linger on shelves in many areas. The reasons are perhaps financial but more likely political.