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Comment by burneraccount12

Right, because the lack of DNA indexing stops cops from racial profiling now.

Cops already check your ID to see if you're related to any known criminal! Literally, this "nightmare scenario" you're envisioning happens every day in America. E.g.: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/28/nypd-gang-database-addit...

It's comical that you think this is some 1984 thing that will happen if we enable DNA indexing...the fact you don't know it already does happen shows just how far removed your experience is with police from those of black and Hispanic people in America.

If you're Arab flying into the country? Even worse.

If anything DNA indexing would allow innocent, unaffiliated people to not have to endure the indignity of what they currently go through.

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