DNA database would help
Wednesday 12th September 2007, 4:07PM BST.
Having every person in the country on a DNA data system would prove very useful in controlling crime.
As it stands at the moment for the police to get DNA from a person, they need evidence of criminal activity. It can then help gain a conviction if that person commits another crime.
Once on the database it is for life and this in itself can be a deterrent to some would-be criminals.
With everyone on a database system people considering criminal activity may think twice because any DNA found at a crime scene could be traced back to them.
Regarding gangs and their bravado attitude, the most cost-effective punishment in dealing with their bad social behaviour would be a few strokes of the birch.
It would be something they could brag about and show the scars to their admirers.
This would soon cut down on the cost to the judicial system, which is met by the taxpayer, and would cut down on such anti-social behaviour.
Plaguing the young and the old, and the destruction of property, seems to be their idea of entertainment.
It is nice to listen to some of the younger generation who have good manners, and respect for others.
Some dress well and act responsibly. Good manners cost nothing.
People judge you by the way you act and speak.
P J Sherwood, Wellington
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To obtain DNA, police simply need to arrest on suspicion of an arrestable offence. maters little that the arrested person may be innocent, or the police simply got it wrong. once arrested DNA is taken and is on the database for life.
whilst it may provide a means to detect a crime after it is committed it is not much of a deterrent.
Most crime is committed by a hard core of 100,000 repeat offenders. Police already have their DNA it has not prevented the repeat offending.
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It’s very saurprising that so many people are prepared to let this intrusion into our privacy pass by without comment..even, indeed, if they are awake.
Thin end of the wedge.
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Wendy is right this would be the thin end of the wedge and as usual the government would use this type of legislation for the opposite of it’s original purpose.
Giving this ‘Stalinist’ regime any more power to snoop would be a very dangerous thing.
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The best way to take control over a people and control them
utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode
rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible
reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights
and freedoms being removed until past the point at which
these changes cannot be reversed – Adolf Hitler
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Cannot wait for it to become law – The innocent as always have nothing to fear.
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