silverdoctor
01-31-2015, 01:01 PM
And this time, to prove your innocence, you must give up a blood sample. So refusal makes you look guilty - and put you on the radar?
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/29/everyone-in-neighbourhood-asked-for-blood-samples-by-police-to-prove-they-didnt-kill-pregnant-woman/
Everyone in neighbourhood asked for blood samples by police to prove they didn’t kill pregnant woman
Police in Windsor, Ont., have ordered hundreds of DNA testing kits and are going door-to-door in a residential neighbourhood — near where former prime Minister Paul Martin grew up — asking everyone to provide a blood sample to rule themselves out as a suspect in the murder of a pregnant woman.
The unusual mass request for a blood sample prompted more than 500 residents to agree and a “handful” of people to refuse, police say. It also has stirred condemnation and warnings from civil liberty and legal advocates about a police technique increasingly turned to when murder probes begin to falter.
“The extraction of a DNA sample without a warrant is concerning. It is inherently coercive,” says Sukanya Pillay, executive director and general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
“There is no guarantee that doing wide sweeps of DNA collection is going to produce the killer, but there is a guarantee it will create potential privacy violation and erosion of standards.”
The Windsor case is distressing for the city.
On Dec. 11, Cassandra Kaake, 31, seven months pregnant, was found dead in her home on Benjamin Avenue after firefighters extinguished a blaze. An autopsy found she died of blood loss — not the fire — and a veteran police investigator described it as “the most disturbing” crime scene he had seen.
Now, seven weeks later, police detectives are returning to the neighbourhood with a mission to speak to every resident.
They are asking what make of vehicle they drive, what their licence plate is, how long they have lived there, whether they rent or own their home and who else lives in the house. They are also asking if they recall seeing Ms. Kaake, perhaps out walking her dog, and about any suspicious vehicles or people they may have seen.
It is the last question asked, however, that is most unusual: Are they willing to turn over a blood sample, at a future date, to help investigators in their probe.
It is a technique dubbed “blooding.”
Click the link to read the rest.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/29/everyone-in-neighbourhood-asked-for-blood-samples-by-police-to-prove-they-didnt-kill-pregnant-woman/
Everyone in neighbourhood asked for blood samples by police to prove they didn’t kill pregnant woman
Police in Windsor, Ont., have ordered hundreds of DNA testing kits and are going door-to-door in a residential neighbourhood — near where former prime Minister Paul Martin grew up — asking everyone to provide a blood sample to rule themselves out as a suspect in the murder of a pregnant woman.
The unusual mass request for a blood sample prompted more than 500 residents to agree and a “handful” of people to refuse, police say. It also has stirred condemnation and warnings from civil liberty and legal advocates about a police technique increasingly turned to when murder probes begin to falter.
“The extraction of a DNA sample without a warrant is concerning. It is inherently coercive,” says Sukanya Pillay, executive director and general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
“There is no guarantee that doing wide sweeps of DNA collection is going to produce the killer, but there is a guarantee it will create potential privacy violation and erosion of standards.”
The Windsor case is distressing for the city.
On Dec. 11, Cassandra Kaake, 31, seven months pregnant, was found dead in her home on Benjamin Avenue after firefighters extinguished a blaze. An autopsy found she died of blood loss — not the fire — and a veteran police investigator described it as “the most disturbing” crime scene he had seen.
Now, seven weeks later, police detectives are returning to the neighbourhood with a mission to speak to every resident.
They are asking what make of vehicle they drive, what their licence plate is, how long they have lived there, whether they rent or own their home and who else lives in the house. They are also asking if they recall seeing Ms. Kaake, perhaps out walking her dog, and about any suspicious vehicles or people they may have seen.
It is the last question asked, however, that is most unusual: Are they willing to turn over a blood sample, at a future date, to help investigators in their probe.
It is a technique dubbed “blooding.”
Click the link to read the rest.