I got arrested for a minor public order offence recently (swearing in
front of a police officer). I got 6hours in jail for it.
Then they tell me I gotta give DNA evidence, so I ask for a solicitor
and he tells me I either give it or 5 cops take it from me.
I tell them it's a crok of s**t and come and get it, so they did.
What's that s**t about?>?
Originally posted by Thequ1ckYep, that is stupid. Why do they have such a problem?
I got arrested for a minor public order offence recently (swearing in
front of a police officer). I got 6hours in jail for it.
Then they tell me I gotta give DNA evidence, so I ask for a solicitor
and he tells me I either give it or 5 cops take it from me.
I tell them it's a crok of s**t and come and get it, so they did.
What's that s**t about?>?
Originally posted by DraxusI dunno, it's these new inner city London policing policies.
Yep, that is stupid. Why do they have such a problem?
I got stopped and searched once for smoking a rolled up
cigarette outside a cafe and another time for wearing a
hooded top. That didn't bother me, hell I wouldn't have
even minded being locked up if it was helping in any way.
But the truth is the police can't wait to get their hands on
every SOB's DNA.
'Means they can put their feet up and play computer games
instead of doing any real policing.
I told 'em that my gf's being trying with sweet talk and kisses
to get some DNA out of me for 2 years, if they want it,
they come and get it.
All it takes is one bent cop in 10 years time to sell on that
database to health insurance companies or such and we
got ourselves a nice little eugenics package.
Home Office figures show that every week around 1,600 DNA matches are made either connecting a suspect to a crime scene or linking crime scenes together.
Police see the resource as a valuable asset in the fight against crime.
But critics, including human rights group Liberty, have criticised the "appalling" practice of keeping samples from people who have not been convicted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1873246.stm
When the powers came into effect last year, campaigners and some scientists expressed grave concerns. Helena Kennedy QC, the chair of the human genetics commission warned that the powers would create a class of people who were permanently under suspicion, even though they had never been convicted.
She said: "Being on a database of potential offenders which might be regularly trawled by the police means that one is on a list of suspects and that surely very subtly alters the way in which the state sees, and we see, our fellow citizens."
Sir Alec Jeffreys, a pioneer behind DNA fingerprinting and a researcher at Leicester University, said: "It is discriminating, inconsistent with privacy laws, and an example of ad hoc sloppy thinking."
http://www.freebeagles.org/articles/keeping_dna.html
I swear, a lot. Hell, I don't care what someone thinks about the words flowing from my mouth. I'm sure they use the same, if not MORE than what I use.
I'm not the type of person to walk around saying "b**ch, fu** you, a**hole" all the time, but I will use profanity to enhance whatever it is I may be speaking about. Sh** happens, suck it up and get over it.
I can throw out big words just like the next man, but who REALLY wants to hear someone spout off a waterfull of dictionary wordst? Let's be real here.
The communities of the world have much more on their plate right now....this I guarantee you.
YIAM