Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even with such changes, honor killings are hard to combat. Sirhan says that at the time he killed his sister, he thought he was committing a capital crime, yet he wasn't deterred. "I'm proud," he beams. Sirhan served his time at the same prison in which "Rafa" languishes, contemplating her catastrophic three-day romance. "With the mistake I made," she says, "I deserve...
...yield remarkably accurate results. If three of the ministrands match a suspect's, the likelihood is 2,000 to 1 that police have the right person. Nine matches boost the odds to 1 billion to 1. FBI sampling rules require no fewer than 13 matches. "Its success as a crime-fighting tool is incredible," says Christopher Asplen, director of a national DNA-study commission...
...December the police commissioner of New York City recommended that anyone even arrested for a crime--never mind convicted of one--be required to submit a routine DNA sample. In England, where a genetic database has operated since 1995, suspects are routinely screened this way--more than 360,000 gene prints are online--though police do promise that such profiles will be scrubbed from the record if the person is cleared. English officials investigating a crime in a small town sometimes perform mass screenings in which thousands of people are asked to surrender a mouth swab full...
...problem for Bereano and other detractors is that DNA technology works. In England as many as 500 matches are made a week between database entries and samples taken from crime scenes. When mass sweeps are conducted, the police claim a 70% success rate in cracking the crime they're investigating. In the U.S., where the months-old national database has barely got on its feet, the FBI claims that 200 outstanding cases have already been solved. What's more, on occasion, DNA sampling benefits not only the people investigating crimes but also the people convicted of them. Since...
...good or a bad idea for the FBI to create a DNA database with information gathered from suspected criminals and crime scenes throughout the country...