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You are willingly giving up freedoms to law enforcement. Why would you do such a thing?

But I'm not. The freedom worth valuing and protecting is freedom of thought and action, subject only to the limitation that in so acting I don't deprive others of their freedom of thought and action. I don't see how giving a DNA sample infringes upon this freedom, and I see many ways in which it may enhance that freedom by enabling the government to do a better job of law enforcement than it otherwise could do without this information.

Would you rather have a few OJ's or a whole lot of Richard Jewells? The job of the Constitution isn't to make that of law enforcement *easier*. How on earth have we managed to live as a civil society for 200+ years and have any crimes at all solved before the DNA database? I can deal with law enforecment not being 100% in catching criminals because I know that God will deal with them eventually even if *we* don't do it now on Earth. Our prisons are full to overflowing, obviously law enforcement is catching criminals. I'd rather have a Constitution with teeth than live in a police state. (When legislatures pass laws to the benefit of law enforcement at the expense of the rights of the citizens...you live in a police state)