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Originally Posted by Kunikos
They can demand but you can say no. Without a warrant they can't do shit. Considering that there are zero legislative deterrants against law enforcement from keeping your DNA sample indefinitely, the average citizen who is innocent can be harassed for years on end if their DNA is in the database and is matched to some random piece of garbage (soda can, whatever) in the vicinity of a crime scene. For people such as those going to school at UNR, I wouldn't doubt this would be likely if something else happens in the future on campus.
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This is exactly my concern. I actually went and asked the UNR PD office about it, and got this:
"Yes, field sample collections are the current policy because of how many assaults have been happening around here, please cooperate because refusing and coming down to the station will waste everyone's time"
To everyday people, they will see it better to submit to a forceful request from an aggressive cop rather than buck the "man". Because of the increasingly widespread use of DNA evidence, I foresee these police-state types of procedures becoming the norm in the future, all in the name of keeping people "safe". Long-term archiving and profiling/cataloguing usage of individual DNA information will be a natural development.
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