Dr_Ken's Journal: UK News Report: Cops busting people just to get their DNA for database!

This is about the most off-putting and egregious violation of a person's dignity and privacy that I've heard to date. When I got stopped the police for [sic] "not having enough reflective material" upon my person while riding a bicycle after sunset and was force by the officer to give my thumb print and be photographed before he'd release me on my way. I was told when I went to pay the fine (($50 USD in 2002) that the purpose was to make sure that I was who I claimed to be and didn't try to do an "somebody stole my ID" defense. I grudgingly bought that line since I wasn't carrying any ID. I thought at the time that this was beyond merely embarrassing but was deliberately humiliating. But now I hear this stuff from England and it makes me wonder anew. Especially so coming from GB where the traditions of privacy and personal autonomy go so deep culturally. And now this shit. Is there any point where the UK population will just say "enough already!"? Or American people as well.
Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims H/t to the Boing Boing blog.