“Should I Give My DNA to the Detective Investigating my Stolen Car Case? What are the Risks and Benefits? #DNA #StolenCar #DetectiveInvestigation”
– Stolen Car Recovery and DNA Request
– Detective’s Assurances and Trustworthiness
– Risks and Benefits of Providing DNA
– Transparency in Lab Use and Disposal of DNA
– Community Safety Concerns and Help with Investigation
Not without a warrant. It will not be discarded, it will be added to LE databases. The risks are many and varying in degree and severity.
Agree with other posters. It will be added to the FBI and other LE databases, regardless of what they tell you. The benefits to you helping are non-existent, whereas the risks are varied.
Absolutely not.
The problem is that they are planning to swab your car for DNA and so your DNA is likely to end up on file as “unknown person” associated to your case anyway.
So, if your DNA comes up anywhere in the future, there could be a reference back to your case which leads to you anyway.
Still, I wouldn’t give it to them.
Nope, all it takes is one mix up and your going down for others crimes.
Not to mention this:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/10/colorado-forensic-scientist-manipulated-dna-results-investigation/72923480007/#
Whether or not you wanna give your DNA is up to you but they will use your DNA to eliminate you and your wife from the swabs they took of your vehicle. That way they’ll have the DNA profile of the thief and that is the one that will be entered into the system for future hits. If you don’t do it, no biggie, police will just close your case.
The detective requested the DNA as an exclusionary measure. If they swabbed the car they need to provide an exclusion sample when the DNA is run. We do the same thing when fingerprints are recovered in a burglary at a home and get the victim’s print to exclude any prints that we were able to lift.
You do not need to consent to it, however, the samples taken from your vehicle will typically not be analyzed without an exclusionary sample. Up to you. I cannot speak to your specific jurisdiction’s policies or procedures, but calling the State Laboratory, or the private lab some smaller jurisdictions use, might answer your question.
Never talk to cops without an attorney present. Let the cops and the lab do what they do, you are under no obligation to help. Your car likely has traces of your DNA all over it, traces of DNA that the perpetrator could have inadvertently spread where the crimes were committed. That’s a hard pass for me, no warrant no attorney no cooperation.
If your car was stolen and recovered, your concern should be to get your car back. Helping the police at this point eliminate you as a suspect benefits them more than it does you unless you are looking to file a civil suit against someone they might catch. You already know where your car is. Unless you are hell bent on catching this thief, it serves no purpose to you to provide DNA that will be used and logged for whatever purpose in the future.
I’d love to know where you live since the police there seem to have a lot of free time.
If you want the thief to be convicted then the DNA evidence is incredibly helpful. They will need your DNA to exclude your samples. Without the DNA evidence they’ll need something else like video or a witness to convict.
Make them get a warrant. Not your responsibility to assist with their investigation.
I’m guessing is just to rule out yours and her dna and find the thief
They took touch DNA when they recovered the vehicle. They are looking to exclude you from the rest found.
However, not knowing what will happen once they have done this should be a concern. Not sure if i would want my DNA in a database
Talk to a lawyer but I would not give it unless it was ordered by a judge and I lost the appeal after that
They are just trying to rule out you and your wife. It’s a process of elimination. You can spend days on conspiracy theory’s. But if your pissed that someone stole you car, if you think they should be caught and then arrested to prevent them doing it again then give it to them and trust the system. In my opinion nothing would give me more satisfaction than catching the thief. I have people like that. God forbid I catch them myself. You do what is in your heart and leave it that. No wrong answer here.
Once they have your DNA, they can check it for any other potential crime ever.
There’s no benefit to you.