Posted on 03/22/2022 9:10:25 AM PDT by Theoria
The database used by the New York Police Department violates state law and the Constitution, the Legal Aid Society contends in a lawsuit.
Three years ago, Shakira Leslie was returning home from a cousin’s birthday party in the Bronx when officers pulled over her friend’s car for a traffic infraction. After she got out of the back seat, the police searched her and found nothing illegal.
But when a gun was found in another passenger’s bag, everyone in the car was arrested, charged with weapon possession and taken to a precinct. There, Ms. Leslie waited for more than 12 hours without getting anything to eat or drink, she said — until officers brought her into an interrogation room and gave her a cup of water.
Eventually, she was released, and the charge against her was dropped.
But weeks later, Ms. Leslie learned new details about the night of her arrest that rattled her: The police had taken the cup and collected her DNA from it without asking. Officials later tested it and used it to determine that she had not handled the gun. “I was shocked, upset. I just felt violated,” said Ms. Leslie, 26, a hair stylist. “I completely lost trust for N.Y.P.D.”
Her DNA was entered into a city database that contains tens of thousands of profiles, and her lawyers say it remained there, even though that night three years ago is the only time she has ever been arrested.
Ms. Leslie is a plaintiff in a federal class-action lawsuit filed late Monday by the Legal Aid Society, which accuses the city of operating an illegal and unregulated DNA database in violation of state law and constitutional protections against unreasonable searches.
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the police are part of the problem.
They are doing the same thing with the covid tests. Collecting people’s DNA.
“I completely lost trust for N.Y.P.D.”
said wi a straight face i’m sure...
Folks, what do we think we’re doing with all those nasal swabs from CoupFlu tests...
If the DNA database is illegal, then so are databases of fingerprints.
Wrong suit. Should be a second amendment suit.
Yep, very large databases in Utah for fedgov to collect all our info.
How can they determine from DNA if a gun was handled?
You can do a DNA test on the gun surface and see what you get.
From the residue of your skin on the gun.
Thank you both!
For some reason I thought they did it the other way around. Maybe the way the article was written confused me.
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