Innocent children on DNA database
The government is keeping DNA records on 24,000 juveniles in a national crime-fighting database who have been neither cautioned or charged with any offence, the Home Office confirmed on Saturday.
The figures were released at the request of Conservative MP Grant Schapps after he investigated the case of a teenager whose DNA data was retained in the database despite being wrongly arrested in a case of mistaken identity.
"The police refused to remove the DNA profile even though they realised they had picked up the wrong chap," Schapps told BBC radio.
Home Office Minister Andy Burnham told the BBC the number of young people on the database reflected the reality of everyday policing.
So everyday policing is now suspecting the innocent !! Andy would not be out of place as a comissar in Soviet Russia. I have been warning of this as regular readers will know
posted by Stussy88 @ 3:30 PM
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That's just wrong, and worrying. I saw a newspaper headline, something about "Do they have YOUR child's DNA?", but I didn't stop to read it as I'd heard nothing about it.
This is my whole deal with ID cards and numberplate recognition cameras everywhere and innocent DNA taken, it's like the whole system is being inverted, where all are suspected unless we can prove we are not guilty. I don't want to sound melodramatic, but we are entering a time of desperate danger for our basic liberties.
All children are dangerous little monsters who should be branded and tagged at birth!!
That said, holy shit.
Practices like that are quite worry-making.
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