As reported by the Sacramento Bee:
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Police officers would regain powers to collect DNA that a voter-approved initiative stripped away under legislation announced Thursday by Assemblyman Jim Cooper, D-Elk Grove, with the backing of district attorneys and lawmakers from both parties.
“Forensic DNA is the greatest tool ever given to law enforcement to find the guilty and to exonerate the innocent,” Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said at an event announcing Assembly Bill 390.
In overwhelmingly approving Proposition 47 in November, Californians endorsed more lenient sentences for crimes like theft and drug possession, reducing them from felonies to misdemeanors. That reduced the reach of a program allowing officers to take the genetic information of suspects arrested for felonies. The Department of Justice estimates Proposition 47 has already diminished the rate of DNA collection by 10 to 20 percent. …
First, let’s have mandatory DNA files for ALL Government Workers/Officials, and see how many cold-cases may be cleared.
Do that for ten years and get back to us.
FANTASTIC response, askeptic!!