DNA From Everybody

[joggerjayne]

Would it be a good idea to take a DNA sample from every new born child, everyone who applies for a passport or driving licence, everyone who applies for social security, everyone who enters the country, etc.

Within a few years, there would be a comprehensive DNA database of the majority of the adult population.

Whenever a crime was committed, the Police would only have to feed the DNA results into the computer to catch the baddie. And, also quite importantly, to eliminate the rest of us.

Whenever an old person had their heating allowance stolen ...

... sample, lab, DNA, computer ... arrest.

[Teddy_boy]

Aren't you just overreacting?At the moment fingerprints are infallible arent they?
In 1997, a smudged print from one of PC Shirley McKie's thumbs was found at a murder scene in Kilmarnock. When she denied it was hers, no one believed her - after all, fingerprints don't lie. Then the truth emerged - it wasn't her print after all. Now she has been awarded £750,000 compensation.
http://www.dailymail....travesty-justice.html

[Davethedog]

Ratter the scenario is simplistic but I don't think the circumstances are. Think of all the DNA you leave and where?

Woman collects seamen from lover - Kills rival leaves seamen in sheet.

Man collects blood from lover - Kills rival leaves blood in sheet.

Doesn't have to perfect just muddy the facts.

[mccfluff]

secretish

"Woman collects seamen from lover - Kills rival leaves seamen in sheet. "

mental images dave lol

[woofgang]

the impotence of been a gud speller lol

[Davethedog]

I meant jolly jack tars not human secretions the seaman was her brother :-D

[Davethedog]

Better to have ponit to make than be a pedant

[mccfluff]

lol still made me laugh though, i was imagining the scene....

[redvanman]

Hi i have surgested this for years it would stop multipul benifit claims saving the country MILLIONS & MILLIONS OF £

[joggerjayne]

Just because a system can sometimes fail, is not a reason for not having the system.

It's like saying we should not have a law against murder because they have so often convicted the wrong person.

[jackthehat]

Erm....no it's not.

[joggerjayne]

Yes it is.

It tries to argue that a particular system should not be in place, on the basis that the system is not perfect, and cunning people would try to get round it.

Well, the law forbidding murder is not perfect, and cunning people try to get round it, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have the rule in place.

[naomi24]

I wouldn't welcome it. I don't want to live in a police state where everything is known about every citizen. Our privacy is invaded far too much already.

[woofgang]

jj when you are looking at putting a new system in place, its sensible to ask if the people who will be responsible for it are capable of managing it safely and effectively....and a way of doing this is to look at the systems they currently manage and see how well they do it.....
are we all rolling on the floor and laughing yet?

[TWR]

Dr Filth, you are a better person than me for excepting the apology, I would have taken this as far as I could, there is something that happened in my last place of work that cost me a job I loved because of one evil piece of Sht, this is now under investigation, I am prepared to pay for Forensic to come & inspect this particular area of Allegation, & if permitted I will get & have been in contact with a company for a Polygraph test, I WILL clear my name & i WILL take this bitch for everything I can for what she has put me through.

[jackthehat]

Cunning people wouldn't try to get around it.
The very people who (or their predecessors) assured us that this information would be used *solely* for the detection of crimes and criminals would be the ones to ultimately betray the populace.

The information held would be too valuable for the bean-counters to let it sit about NOT earning money.

[redvanman]

simply YES

[redvanman]

YES