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...during the assault, and the investigators didn't have any solid leads. For years Smith lived in fear that he would return and attack her or her daughters. But one day, her husband, a police officer, came home with good news: the state DNA lab had caught her rapist. Norman Jimmerson, in fact, was already in jail, convicted of kidnapping and robbing two other women around the same time that Smith was attacked. When his DNA was entered into the state's data bank--something Virginia law now requires of all felons--it matched a semen sample recovered from Smith...
...harnessing the crime-busting power of DNA is building up state databases, like the one that found Smith's rapist. Forty-three states now have such databases, and they are growing rapidly. Virginia's DNA bank, for example, currently has 190,000 samples, which have produced about 60 matches so far. Those successes are likely to increase rapidly as Virginia adds 8,000 DNA samples a month...
...little less," Uncle Joe advises, and the limo roars off. This Stalin takes in the world with a savage candor. At a meeting with his hatchetman Lavrenty Beria, "I caught a whiff of that hideous cologne that Beria favored, the cologne of an unctuous headwaiter, the cologne of a rapist...
...sees it, contemporary black America is analogous to a rape victim, with all the connotations that that status brings. They struggle with powerlessness, voicelessness and self-loathing. White America is analogous to the rapist, associated with an inverse, if equally resonant, set of images. They struggle with guilt, cultural ignorance and the desire to protect their own privilege...
Goff is himself biracial, and although he identifies himself as black, he believes his mixed lineage gives him no choice but to be responsible to both the rapist and the rape victim--to help the black community restore its damaged voice, while simultaneously convincing the white community of the need for change...