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F.B.I. and States Vastly Expand DNA Databases

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"As in Britain, expanding genetic sampling in the United States could exacerbate racial disparities in the criminal justice system, according to Hank Greely, a Stanford University Law School professor who studies the intersection of genetics, policing and race. Mr. Greely estimated that African-Americans, who are about 12 percent of the national population, make up 40 percent of the DNA profiles in the federal database, reflective of their prison population. He also expects Latinos, who are about 13 percent of the population and committed 40 percent of last year?s federal offenses ? nearly half of them immigration crimes ? to dominate DNA databases." F.B.I. and States Vastly Expand DNA Databases By SOLOMON MOORE Published: April 18, 2009 NY Times Until now, the federal government genetically tracked only convicts...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 19, 2009 (boomark / email).