-Caveat Lector- forwarded.... Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart >From: "Solutions International" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:49:41 +0000 >Subject: (Fwd) [FP] Police organization call for blanket DNA testing ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- >From: "ScanThisNews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "ScanThisNews Recipients List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [FP] Police organization call for blanket DNA testing >Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:30:58 -0500 >Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== SCAN THIS NEWS 8/23/99 ===[forwarded MSNBC article]=== Police chiefs call for DNA testing Samples would be taken from all crime suspects [http://www.msnbc.com/news/302042.asp] By Hans H. Chen APBNEWS.COM Law enforcement officials are calling for everysuspect placed under arrest to have a DNA sample taken. - NEW YORK, Aug. 18 _ A plan by New York City - police commissioner Howard Safir to take DNA - samples from everyone arrested has received the - backing of an influential police organization. MEETING AT the New York Police Department headquarters, the executive committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) on Saturday voted unanimously to approve Safir's resolution calling for states and the federal government to fund the DNA sampling of criminal suspects upon their arrest. Currently, the FBI coordinates a database of DNA samples collected by 14 states. But each state collects DNA samples according to its own laws and usually only from people who have already been convicted of crimes. The IACP's resolution calls for a standardized collection procedure of everyone who is arrested for a crime. The sample would be destroyed if charges were dropped or the suspect acquitted. "We don't wait until conviction to fingerprint someone," said IACP President Ronald Neubauer, chief of the St. Peters, Mo., Police Department. "We fingerprint them upon arrest. That's the same principle here." VOTE EXPECTED IN OCTOBER Saturday's vote sends the resolution to the IACP's 16,000 members for approval at the group's annual meeting in late October. Members of the IACP executive committee said they were confident the general assembly would approve the resolution. "There's no question that this will pass because DNA is such a valuable tool and such an innovative mechanism we can use," Neubauer said. "I look at it in terms of being able to look at people who did not commit the crime as well as those who did." Safir first proposed entering DNA from arrestees into a database last year. He said the move would solve crimes by enlarging the pool of possible matches for DNA taken from crime scenes. With discarded cigarette butts, dried saliva and chewing gum all now yielding crime scene DNA, the need to compile a criminal database of DNA samples becomes all the more important, IACP members said. "Anything that helps in identification of individuals is certainly a great aid," said Chief William Nolan of the North Little Rock, Ark., police, who also serves as the IACP's general chairman for its Division of State Associations of Chiefs of Police. "DNA is every bit as good if not better than fingerprints have been in the past." --- [Sidebar:]`DNA includes all sorts of information about you and your family, and I personally would not want that information to be in the government's hands for any reason that it shouldn't be.' _ EMILY WHITFIELD ACLU --- CRITICS RAISE PRIVACY CONCERNS But civil libertarians say that collecting DNA from criminal suspects raises privacy concerns that fingerprints never broached. "Fingerprints are a two-dimensional representation of your fingertip," said Emily Whitfield, a spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberty Union's national headquarters in New York City. "DNA is a sample from which scientists have already identified 4,000 indicators for disease. "DNA includes all sorts of information about you and your family, and I personally would not want that information to be in the government's hands for any reason that it shouldn't be. And if I'm arrested for jaywalking or littering, or any minor thing, I don't want to be giving up my DNA for that." SYSTEM ALREADY BACKLOGGED Collecting DNA evidence from all criminal suspects would require enormous amounts of money at a time when the DNA testing system is already severely backlogged. Across the country, DNA labs are facing a backlog of more than 450,000 DNA samples taken just from those convicted of crimes. The National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, a federal advisory body formed last fall by Attorney General Janet Reno, called for $22.5 million to clear up the backlog. Last month, the commission also said taking DNA samples from arrestees was too costly and unfeasible. But members of the IACP said their resolution called for strong funding to accompany the creation of any program that takes DNA samples from arrestees. "While no specific figures were discussed, there was talk that this was not something that was not inexpensive and that proper funding would be required," Neubauer said. `TRYING TO GET NOTICED' A call by 16,000 law enforcement commanders might spur Capitol Hill into action, IACP members said. "I think right now we're trying to get noticed by Congress to at least look into this," said Bill Berger, the IACP's third vice president and chief of police in North Miami Beach, Fla. Berger added that the IACP's support of DNA collection from criminal suspects mirrored the group's earlier interest in another criminal database. "Historically, the original fingerprints files were created by IACP and given over to the FBI," Berger said. "IACP was the first depository for fingerprints, and the IACP has always had cutting-edge forecasting for things such as this. So we saw this as another avenue." Hans H. Chen is an APBNews.com staff writer. ======================================================================= Don't believe anything you read on the Net unless: 1) you can confirm it with another source, and/or 2) it is consistent with what you already know to be true. ======================================================================= Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ======================================================================= To subscribe to the free Scan This News newsletter, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and type "subscribe scan" in the BODY. 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