Posted on 05/08/2022 10:20:30 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A New York court halted the use of a DNA crime fighting tool that has helped crack cold cases and put murderers behind bars, but has also raised privacy and racial discrimination concerns, because state lawmakers never approved the practice.
Known as familial DNA searching, the technique allows law enforcement agencies to search the state’s DNA databank for close biological relatives of people who have left traces of genetic material at a crime scene.
A panel of judges on a mid-level appeals court ruled Thursday that regulations for the technique were invalid because a state committee implemented them without consent from the Legislature.
Three of the panel's five members voted to suspend the searches, which were challenged by a group of Black men who worried they could be targeted for investigation because their biological brothers were convicted of crimes and had genetic information stored in the state's DNA databank.
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The lawsuit, filed in conjunction with the law firm Gibson Dunn, contended that people of color faced a higher risk of being investigated through familial DNA searching because the majority of DNA information in the state's databank is from people of color, and that the state did nothing to restrain police overreach or give recourse to people subject to suspicion less searches.
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facts are facts, truth is truth....
Oh, BS
Because blacks commit more crimes disproportionately especially violent ones
“A panel of judges on a mid-level appeals court ruled Thursday that regulations for the technique were invalid because a state committee implemented them without consent from the Legislature.”
That reads like a decision based on separation of powers.
Laws are not created by state committees.
I love watching the TV show the First 48 cold case files. The new technic of familia DNA has tracked down numerous murder suspects and is a great asset for law enforcement.
Finding criminals is RAYCISS
Then legislate it and it has to be reciprocal for all 50 states....and not a Federal Law.
Has the NY legislature approved of the use of fingerprint tracing, or do the police just go out and do it because it works?
Guess law-abiding taxpayers of every skin color aren’t fleeing NYS fast enough for Deep State.
facts are facts, truth is truth....
Ummm - a lot of us (military service and others) were forced to provide DNA samples - prove that none of them are in the records they want to search...some "facts and truths" --- ain't
“do the police just go out and do it because it works?”
I imagine they do it because it works, and the Legislature had already given them broad license to enact practices like that one.
Your analogy is apt, because DNA testing could be considered a sort of “fingerprinting”. But it’s more than that, since it can reveal medical information that could be considered personal and private and outside the police’s purview. Maybe that’s where the judge’s reasoning about explicit legislation fits in.
This is New York, so likelier than not, as you suggest, the argument was just an excuse to treat some defendants more leniently than others.
No one EVER suggests that blacks stop committing so many crimes as a way for them to avoid negative interactions with cops, and now they are preventing the cops from using DNA to track down criminals. All those with their hands on the levers of power are now in favor of criminals and work against the law-abiding citizens.
Well, that's one way to keep Blacks out of prison.
Would this ruling bar the use of this tool to run down deadbeat dads?
Rape victim: can’t you track him down with DNA tests?.
Police Officer: Sorry mam were not allowed to do that.
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