Should citizens be expected to volunteer DNA samples for unsolved sex crimes ? Lets hear from the “if you got nothing to hide” contingent .
Like the welcome mat in my garage says “Come back with a warrant”...
“...Lets hear from the “if you got nothing to hide” contingent.”
My response to that line of “reasoning” is this: “Since I don’t have anything to hide, you have nothing to look for, so get off my porch and be on you’re way.”
But if from other evidence, it's either me, or one of my two long-lost brothers on the east coast -- sure, I'd do it -- to let them concentrate on finding who they should be looking for.
Incidentally, the very first use of forensic DNA was when the Brits, investigating a sex murder, asked a whole village of several hundred men for samples, and they all did so -- and no one matched. Until some causal pub talk revelaed that one guy had gotten another guy to donate in his name -- they found that dude, and he matched!
AND I have to show my social security card so they can run the numbers and make sure I'm not a “deadbeat dad”. It's true of all males.
The presumption of innocence is gone. Now you are accused and must prove your innocence.