The Police IIEnzyme asks: Have you ever been arrested? Been thrown down the stairs by the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad, with hi-LAR-ious consequences? Or maybe you're a member of the police force with chortlesome anecdotes about particularly stupid people you've encountered.
Do tell.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 May 2011, 18:42)
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There is the small issuethat it is not infallible, a match on its own doesn't mean much, and given the tendency of police investigation to play into confirmatory bias, it does increase the risk of innocent people being harassed.
The question then might become how much harassment are we willing to endure, and should we make more of an effort to compensate people for this haranguing. Harassing and haranguing that does include locking innocent people up and seriously fucking their lives up.
Then again, they're not quite sure how sound fingerprints are either.
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sat 7 May 2011, 16:23,
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The fingerprints of the innocentare not retained as a matter of course, as far as I know.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 7 May 2011, 16:27,
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I don't know about fingerprintsBut if you are arrested on suspicion of a recordable offence the DNA sample which is taken becomes a permanent record, at least in England and Wales.
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Which is kind of the point I was making...(
Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:44,
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