For or against the police keeping DNA records

[Bugfatty300]

I want to know what has happened to warrants and subpoenas. You know, normal constitutional police work? Or are we just going by "everyone is a potential criminal" method today?

 

[bhsup]

If there is a high chance of reoffending then why are they being released from prison?

Precisely. While I personally advocate the expansion of the death penalty to cover more crimes, that's irrelevant. IF the deal the criminal gets with the courts is "X" years, then that's his punishment. If the courts want the criminal to be punished and lorded over for a longer period, lengthen the friggin sentence. Don't blackball them for the rest of eternity.

But it would still be easier to just shoot them.

In what way does prison pay their debt to society? If anything, they're burning away a higher debt to society sitting there in prison with their free gyms and Playstations.

See above. That's the terms the courts laid out. Probably should always be tougher sentences, but that's not my call. The convict got a contract of sorts from the government and like it or not, we should honor it.

You "I'm not doing anything wrong" people scare the crap out of me. Never, ever trust your government. Ever.

Agreed, with one slight change. Never, ever trust your government when it is dealing with its own citizens. Don't worry so much when it's other folks.

I figure it's one of those things that will happen eventually.

That said, it should be fought at every stage of the slippery slope, just to ensure that as many feasible safe guards are there as possible. The citizens need the safeguards put in first, because it's going to be hard to get them in after-the-fact.

Probably the most realistic outcome.

 

[Bugfatty300]

What about the victims and their freedom from criminals?

Freedom from crime does not supersede freedom from unwarranted seizure of property, data or information.

 

[JZ_UK]

I want to know what has happened to warrants and subpoenas. You know, normal constitutional police work? Or are we just going by "everyone is a potential criminal" method today?

Don't have the need for that in the UK... a Superintendent (not sure how that converts to US ranks, its the head of a police station here) can legally have you strapped down and stick a needle in your arm to take a sample if you won't give one freely...

 

[JohnRM]

Its nice to know that so many of you would willingly march right into tyranny.