Q.1 What are the benefits of DNA database?
Q.2 – What Problems do DNA databases pose?
A.2 Despite all their benefits, DNA databases remain Controversial. Privacy advocates and defense lawyers believe genetic databases pose risks to the innocent if they contain data on people who are not convicted criminals. In some instance, DNA has been collected from witness or others to eliminate them from police inquiries. DNA has been collected from families of suspects should continue to be pursued.
Q.3 - Who should be including in a national DNA databases? Should it be limited to convicted felons? Explain your Answer.
Ans. The Bush administration and some state legislator have advocated expanding the FBI DNA databases to include juveniles or people who have been accused of crimes but not convicted.
Q.4 – Who should be able to use DNA databases?
A.4 Most people aren’t violent criminals, including those who commit misdemeanors, and their inclusion in a national DNA databases exposes them to risks they would not otherwise face. People who collect and analyze DNA can make mistakes. There may be valid reasons for an innocent person’s DNA to be at a crime scene that police might choose to disregard. Innocent people may be caught up in a criminal investigation when their DNA from a single hair or spot of saliva on a drinking glass appeas in a public or private place where they had every right to be.
A.5 CODIS generates investigative leads in cases where biological evidence is recovered from the crime scene. Matches made among profiles in the Forensic Index can link crime scenes together; possibly identifying serial offenders. Based upon a match, police from multiple jurisdictions can coordinate their respective investigations and share the leads they developed independently. Matches made between the Forensic and Offender Indexes provide investigators with the identity of a suspect perpetrator(s). Since names and other personally identifiable information are not stored at NDIS, qualified DNA analysts in the laboratories sharing matching profiles contact each other to confirm the candidate match.
NDIS is the highest level in CODIS hierarchy, and enables the laborateries participating in the program to exchange and compare DNA profiles on the national level.
Q.6 What information does CODIS maintain?
A.6 CODIS contains the profiles of convicted offender, contains arrestees persons profile, DNA profiles collected from crime scenes, missing persons profile, contains DNA profiles developed from unidentified human remains, contains DNA profiles voluntarily contributed from relatives of missing person.
Q.7 Who is allowed to use CODIS?
A.7 A total of 175 crime labs in all 50 states and Puerto Rico ... as well as the FBI Lab and the U.S. Army Crime Lab. And, in a sign of how effective the system is, 31 labs in 18 nations worldwide also use CODIS, but they are not connected to any DNA databases here in the U.S. They simply borrow the FBI's technology to help investigations in their own countries, much as we do here.
Q.8 How does CODIS aid criminal investigation?
A.8 CODIS generates investigative leads in cases where biological evidence is recovered from the crime scene. Matches made among profiles in the Forensic Index can link crime scenes together, possibly identifying serial offenders. Based upon a match, police from multiple jurisdictions can coordinate their respective investigations and share the leads they developed independently. Matches made between the Forensic and Offender Indexes provide investigators with the identity of a suspected perpetrator(s). Since names and other personally identifiable information are not stored at NDIS, qualified DNA analysts in the laboratories sharing matching profiles contact each other to confirm the candidate match.
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