San Francisco sued by woman who says her rape-kit DNA was used to arrest her

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For some reason I find it more appalling that out of any police department, the SFPD would do such a thing. Maybe I'm biased by the # of tech savvy people that live there?

Wouldn't the technicians running these at least have the technological savvy, responsibility, or at last the notion to chime in "hey btw, this is extremely unethical"?

I'd be interested in how mixed the feelings are in San Franciscans. Those of us who've been burgled would like all these criminals identified. We'd like our stuff back too.

That’s fucked up, sorry. But creating a database that’s basically a random false positive generator is not going to solve your problems. Would you like to arrest any random person just because you’re angry?

The article sheds no light on why the charges were dropped. I myself never enjoy the sense that a guilty party gets off on a technicality when I care about the broken law.

If DNA is a random false positive generator, its efficacy as a perpetrator identifier is less than many are led to believe.

I'm not advocating for this use of DNA. I am soliciting any evidence for mixed feelings about it.

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