[kesg]

"The only "privacy" being protected here is the "privacy" to commit a crime without being caught using DNA evidence."

It's not even about privacy. It is about preventing creeping incrementalism to where everyone in the country is treated as a suspect for crimes.

I don't see it that way at all. I see it as giving the government an additional valuable tool to do its job, which is to secure our individual rights from those who would deprive us of these rights, including criminals.

[Protagoras]

including criminals.

Suspects aren't necessarily criminals.

[dirtboy]

I don't see it that way at all. I see it as giving the government an additional valuable tool to do its job, which is to secure our individual rights from those who would deprive us of these rights, including criminals.

Well, then, why stop with just people arrested but not convicted? Let's have EVERYONE submit a DNA sample. And their bank records. And let's allow cops to stop cars and search our homes whenever they want, without a warrant or probable cause. I bet we could REALLY put a bite in crime then.

Have you ever stopped to consider where your train of thought is heading?

[mabelkitty]

You obviously work for the government and you see this as a good career move. Lookin' to transfer departments?