NYPD falters on promise of DNA database demographic transparency, advocates say
Many people with DNA in the NYPD database have not been convicted of a crime or even arrested.
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Many people with DNA in the NYPD database have not been convicted of a crime or even arrested.
The New York City Police Department surreptitiously took DNA samples from more than 30,000 people and kept them in a database, a lawsuit from the Legal
(NEW YORK) -- A federal lawsuit accuses the New York Police Department of surreptitiously taking DNA samples without obtaining warrants and storing the genetic
(NEW YORK) — A federal lawsuit accuses the New York Police Department of surreptitiously taking DNA samples without obtaining warrants and storing the genetic material in perpetuity in an illegal and unregulated database. The database turns thousands of people, primarily Black and Latino people, into […]
Tim Drivas Photography/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A federal lawsuit accuses the New York Police Department of surreptitiously taking DNA samples without obtaining warrants and storing the genetic material in perpetuity in an illegal and unregulated database. The database turns thousands of people, primarily Black and Latino people, into "permanent criminal suspects," according to the lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan. Plaintiff Shakira Leslie was one of the nearly 32,000 individuals who had DNA taken without her knowledge, the lawsuit says. In 2019, Leslie was 23 and ...