{"id":5483,"date":"2011-04-26T05:01:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T04:31:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T04:31:56","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5483","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Possible federal move to direct states to take DNA from arrestees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/lawmaker-wants-dna-from-suspects-when-arrested-for-state-crimes\/2011\/04\/24\/AFgBjIdE_story.html\">Lawmaker wants DNA from suspects when arrested for state crimes<\/a> by  Rob Hotakainen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2001, King County Sheriff Dave Reichert relied on a DNA match to solve the case of Washington state\u2019s Green River Killer, who murdered 49 women and ranks as the nation\u2019s most prolific serial killer.<\/p>\n<p>Now a Republican congressman, Reichert wants Congress to expand the use of DNA testing by getting more states to collect DNA samples, just as they do fingerprints, when suspected felons are arrested for state crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Such testing already is allowed for anyone arrested by a U.S. law enforcement agency for a federal crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for Republicans and &#8220;big government&#8221; intruding into our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5483\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}