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Jim Henderson wrote:
> supposed to be 100% accurate (or better than 99% accurate),
Read "better than 99% accurate" as "less than 3 million false positives" in
a nation-wide DNA database.
> how exactly does one challenge that if it's
> supposed to be infallible?
To be fair, that's a pretty damn easy thing to challenge. "Here, take my DNA
again."
Of course, every accused criminal will try this approach, at which point,
what did you save by doing a giant collection in the first place.
> but the law sets the police up so as
> to be required to engage in racial profiling.
It's also a witch-trial law. If someone reports you as illegal, the police
are required to come and make you prove you're not.
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