A lawsuit against New York City claims police officers are illegally completing DNA searches, taking DNA without people's consent and storing it in a database. Christinafantv has the story. NYPD
, which filed the suit, says it often happens when the police officer gives a simple offer during questioning of a suspect, CBS2's Christina Fan reported Tuesday.NYPD
The Legal Aid Society is suing to stop the practice, alleging thousands of innocent New Yorkers, including children, have had their DNA entered illegally into a suspect index. The federal class action lawsuit filed this week alleges the city, NYPD, and chief medical examiner are violating the Fourth Amendment"This database has no oversight whatsoever. It's essentially a rogue database they unilaterally set up and then they have set up their own criteria for who and when they remove someone from it," the Legal Aid Society's Lisa Freeman said.According to sources, an overwhelming majority of the samples extracted led to convictions.
The NYPD has had to defend its practice before, at a 2020 City Council hearing. Top brass then pledged to purge profiles that were more than two years old that did not provide any hits.
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