{"id":135471,"date":"2020-12-17T04:05:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-nycs-dna-database-helps-solve-crime-and-prevent-it\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T04:05:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:05:32","slug":"how-nycs-dna-database-helps-solve-crime-and-prevent-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-nycs-dna-database-helps-solve-crime-and-prevent-it\/","title":{"rendered":"#How NYC’s DNA database helps solve crime \u2014 and prevent it"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How NYC’s DNA database helps solve crime \u2014 and prevent it<\/strong>”
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In October, the City Council introduced a bill to limit the NYPD\u2019s collection of DNA samples. Co-sponsors Diana Ayala and Donovan Richards seek to prevent gathering samples from minors without their knowledge or parental consent. But if anything, new research suggests we should not only be maintaining these DNA samples, but putting everyone who is in the database on notice.<\/p>\n

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner houses the local DNA database for the five boroughs. It operates completely independent of police and of prosecutors\u2019 offices. In the database, samples are associated solely with a serial number: There is no information about identity, race, age or health. The information can\u2019t be used in paternity suits or insurance claims. It exists exclusively to establish or disprove guilt.<\/p>\n

There is only one downside to being in the DNA database: If you commit a crime, you might get caught. The upsides to our city, however, may be even bigger than previously thought.<\/p>\n

Newly published research from the Manhattan Institute reveals that DNA databases deter crime to a gobsmacking \u00addegree \u2014 especially among young people. Superstar economist Jennifer Doleac found that in the United States, adding people convicted of a violent felony offense to a DNA database reduced the likelihood of another conviction within five years by 17 percent. The effect on those convicted of property felonies was a smaller 6 per\u00adcent decline, but that group also changed its behavior.<\/p>\n

Doleac conducted analogous \u00adresearch in Denmark, where they have a similar system but richer data. In 2005, Denmark expanded its DNA database from including just a small subset of the most \u00adserious violent offenders to capturing everyone charged with the equivalent of a felony. For this group, being added to the DNA database reduced the likelihood of a new conviction by 42 percent in the first year. The effect persisted for at least three years.<\/p>\n

These findings have direct implications for the council bill in Gotham, since the deterrent effect was found most pronounced among still-developing young people: \u00adBeyond deterring wrongdoing, database-inclusion \u00adimproved life outcomes. The cohort that reduced its criminal behavior the most, ages 18 to 23, shifted from employment to education or training programs. Those from the older group, ages 24 to 30, shifted from unemployment into employment.<\/p>\n

Doleac explains these life course corrections: \u201cWe don\u2019t know whether being added to the DNA database caused this shift in \u00adbehavior directly, as a conscious investment in noncriminal skills \u2014 or indirectly, as the result of no longer having work or schooling interrupted by arrests and incarcerations. Either way, the reduction in criminal behavior due to the deterrent effect of the DNA \u00addatabase app<\/a>ears to have put these individuals on a better track.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richards, now Queens borough president, cheered on by the Legal Aid Society, \u00addecried youth DNA collection as \u201cgenetic stop-and-frisk,\u201d claiming it targets black and brown New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

The truth is there is no faster, less biased way to the truth than DNA. Yes, the cops may take abandonment samples \u2014 collecting DNA off of soda bottles, for \u00adinstance \u2014 from minors who are in custody following a crime. But this DNA isn\u2019t random, and its collection and storage does only one thing: solve crime.<\/p>\n

Like so many cries for drastic police reform, this bill\u2019s advocates portray cops solely as victimizers and completely sidestep any consideration of preventing crime and seeing justice done for victims and the innocent.<\/p>\n

And if, as Doleac\u2019s research \u00adindicates, being admitted to the database actually steers youth \u00adtoward more pro-social<\/a> behavior and better lives, it is an advantage not just for the Big Apple but for entrants themselves. It decreases an individual\u2019s likelihood of incarceration by discouraging criminal activity. And all with no more incursion into privacy than the mandatory fingerprinting of everyone from daycare employees to lawyers to cops and private investigators, me included.<\/p>\n

Limiting the database simply risks solving fewer crimes \u2014 especially those committed against black New Yorkers, who make up the majority of the city\u2019s homicide victims. It risks fewer exonerations for the wrongly accused. And now research suggests it risks more kids going down a path of crime and incarceration. Is this bill really in city kids\u2019 best interest?<\/p>\n

Hannah Meyers is director of the policing and public-safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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