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N.Y. Passes DNA Requirement For Convicted Criminals (npr.org)
1 point by bmking on March 19, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



» "We know from lots of studies and lots of data now that violent criminals very often begin their careers as nonviolent criminals," Aborn says. «

This is just plain stupid! When looking at the violent criminals many may also convict to nonviolent crimes. But looking at all the nonviolent criminals, only a few may ever commit a violent crime! Then you could instead just force a dna-sample at the birth of every New Yorker citizen. Well that is probably also where it will end if this is not stopped...




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