Submission + - All of UK population should be on DNA database
ReluctantRefactorer writes: The BBC reports that judge Lord Justice Sedley thinks that:
He continues:
"It means where there is ethnic profiling going on [-] disproportionate numbers of ethnic minorities get onto the database.
"It also means that a great many people who are walking the streets and whose DNA would show them guilty of crimes, go free."
Even people who visit the UK for just a weekend would be included. I bet the UK tourist industry won't be too happy.
"The whole population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database".
He continues:
"It means where there is ethnic profiling going on [-] disproportionate numbers of ethnic minorities get onto the database.
"It also means that a great many people who are walking the streets and whose DNA would show them guilty of crimes, go free."
Even people who visit the UK for just a weekend would be included. I bet the UK tourist industry won't be too happy.