18 December 1998 - DNA under arrest
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New York City’s police commissioner Howard Safir hopes for approval
of a plan to store a DNA sample of every person arrested in the city.
“The innocents have nothing to fear,” he explains. “Innocent
persons are never arrested. I mean, from my point of view,
just being in New York is already an offense.”
clue:
He did say “The innocents have nothing to fear,” according
to newspaper accounts. Needless to say, I made up the rest.
take oh take this clue away
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