Given the increase of DNA collection upon arrest and law enforcement profiling of potential serial offenders since 1994, should The Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) in the United States be abolished to alleviate racial biases in law enforcement?
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Economic Lens - Alyssa
Political
Legal
Scientific/Medical Lens (Srinitya)
Ethical Lens
Social Lens - Krish
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Give the fact that African-Americans are disproportionately arrested in the United States, do the disadvantages of DNA collection by federal databases for the purposes of crime control outweigh the benefits?
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Rachit
Is it legal for DNA databases to store the DNA of people who have not committed a crime
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yes
Should states provide DNA to federal databses
Yes
Yes
Violates the 4th amendment
Yes
No
Testing inaccuracies and uncertainties and DNA matching
no
Privacy is violated
DNA is key to prevent and deter crime
Function creep and overpolicing
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Biometric surveillance of minorities and immigrants
DNA in federal databases can be mined
Stereotyping black criminality
Border Control and deportations
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funding
cost efficiency
direct vs indirect costs
time and effort
Innocent until proven guilty so there is no probable cause to search dna databases
Ways to collect DNA
Blood
Saliva
Methods of DNA Collection
Legal Migrants can face unfair convictions
DNA can be contaminated during testing
Illegal Migrants can be deported
DNA can be loosely matched to proximal and familial connections
investment costs
overall effectiveness
Should labs count the number of convictions based on codis hits
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Inaccuracy in DNA Collection
Hair
Buccal Cells
Human Bias
Human Error
Racial Profiling and how it messes with DNA being tested
Data can be distributed to media and public, which is a individual breach of confidentiality.
Issues of biopower and biopolitics
DNA contains personal information and the government can expand their applications of DNA information, abusing power.