{"id":384,"date":"2012-06-16T16:02:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T16:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncjolt.org\/\/?p=384"},"modified":"2020-06-04T20:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:54:31","slug":"just-the-facts-maam-removing-the-drama-from-dna-dragnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/just-the-facts-maam-removing-the-drama-from-dna-dragnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the Facts, Ma\u2019am: Removing the Drama from DNA Dragnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement is increasingly turning to \u201cgenetic witnesses\u201d to solve crimes. The incorporation of genetic technologies like DNA ancestry tests and indirect molecular photofitting has drawn criticism as high-tech \u201cracial profiling.\u201d In cases where law enforcement has requested voluntary DNA samples to assist with criminal investigations, critics have quickly labeled the conduct \u201cDNA dragnets.\u201d To facilitate a constructive debate over whether and how law enforcement uses these genetic technologies, the loaded language is removed and the legal framework and scientific technologies are examined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement is increasingly turning to \u201cgenetic witnesses\u201d to solve crimes. The incorporation of genetic technologies like DNA ancestry tests and indirect molecular photofitting has drawn criticism as high-tech \u201cracial profiling.\u201d In cases where law enforcement has requested voluntary DNA samples to assist with criminal investigations, critics have quickly labeled the conduct \u201cDNA dragnets.\u201d To <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/just-the-facts-maam-removing-the-drama-from-dna-dragnets\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7891,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/7891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}