If you get booked into jail, you are routinely photographed and fingerprinted to aid with any future identification needs law enforcement might have. No one complains about this, so what’s the difference?
When it was found that fingerprints could be used to positively identify individual people, it was quickly incorporated into the criminal justice system, which has resulted in the convictions of untold numbers of people who otherwise would have never been caught.
Now, a new advancement in science has given us an even better tool for this endeavor: DNA analysis. It is becoming almost commonplace for cold cases of rape/murder victims to be solved using DNA analysis, often through samples taken from individuals arrested for crimes. How on earth is this in any way bad?
To me the best deal about DNA analysis is that it is almost impossible for an assailant to not leave some bodily material behind that could be used to identify them after an assault of another person. Can you imagine the deterrence that would be rendered to crimes like rape if every man on the planet knew there was a record of their DNA kept somewhere?
Arrest? I think DNA samples should be recorded at birth and kept beyond death. Believe in a future when we will convict burglars from skin cells they leave behind.
