DNA Database

Let me understand this.

If you are arrested as a suspect in a violent crime, your DNA goes into a database. What happens if you are not convicted? What happens if the charges are dropped?

In theory, this is a good tool. HOWEVER, given the Baltimore police RECENT history of locking people up on bogus charges, I don't like this bill at all.

The Baltimore police have arrested and put in jail:

• A teenager, in front of his house, who was talking to his cousin who had just given him a ride home. The boy spent 3 days in jail because he couldn't be arraigned in a timely manner. And after that, the charges were dropped. He has to sue to get his arrest record expunged.
• A meter maid parking violation officer, on duty, in her uniform, while she was ticketing a car.
• A man, on his porch in his back yard, for drinking a beer. He. Was. Drinking. A. Beer. On. His. Own. Property.
• A cart vendor who was moving his vending cart, even though he had all of the proper stickers and permits displayed.

No, I don't like this. I foresee sweeps based on bogus charges to collect DNA samples of everyone in the neighborhood.