THE UNREALIZED POTENTIAL OF DNA TESTING

      This article can mainly be described with this statement, "Today, although most crimes continue to be solved through confessions and eyewitness accounts, forensic evidence--most often drugs, fingerprints, firearms, blood, and semen--has come increasingly to be used to establish the truth." The authors introduces the idea on how DNA has improved in the years and has helped tremendously with solving crimes. The article also showcases that DNA has become a routines in the courthouse. The use of DNA to solve investigations has increase greatly in the passed years.
        IN THE U.S. Today almost all States have legislation related to DNA data banking, most of it focusing on collecting and testing DNA from individuals convicted of sexual assaults and often homicides. In some cases the legislation requires collection from all convicted felons. Although DNA databanking was proposed almost 10 years ago, and although data banking has been almost universally adopted at the State level, the concept of its development in this country is still rudimentary.
       This article is based was written to allow people to acknowledge the fact that DNA and forensic evidence have great potential in the future. If the potential of DNA and forensic evidence can be established or realized, the percentage of people getting away with murder will hugely decrease.




       The article helps consider a great future for Forensic evidence. It showcases that forensic evidence is reliable, and its accuracy is increasing greatly. With the help of technology being invented,  tools becoming more and more reliable, and the more determined forensic scientist at work will help ensure a phenomenal  future for forensics. 


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Weedn, Victor Walter, and John W. Hicks. "The Unrealized Potential of DNA Testing." National Institute of Justice Journal (U.S. Dept. of Justice). Dec. 1997: 16-23. SIRS Government Reporter. Web. 20 May 2012.