DNA collection for VICTIM datebase

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Get this.... Dallas police are wanting to collect DNA from prostitutes for a victim datebase......
Anyone still think the police are going to protect you?
More evidence that they will clean up the mess after you are dead.
But don't worry, at least your family will know what happened to you.

Dallas police to collect DNA for database to identify prostitutes who become victims

12:11 AM CST on Tuesday, November 3, 2009

By SCOTT GOLDSTEIN / The Dallas Morning News
sgoldstein@dallasnews.com

The Dallas Police Department plans to start collecting DNA samples from truck-stop prostitutes on a voluntary basis to help identify the women if they are later reported missing, comatose or murdered.

The unprecedented endeavor is scheduled to begin early next year as a new phase of the department's 2-year-old Prostitution Diversion Initiative, which offers prostitutes a chance at rehabilitation, often as part of a criminal sentence.

It comes as authorities nationwide are increasingly working together and with the FBI to solve hundreds of murders along major highways that are thought to be committed by serial killers working as truckers.

Dubbed the High Risk Potential Victims' DNA Database, it will be funded and maintained by the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification in Fort Worth.

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"These women who are essentially working a lot of these truck stops, they are ... high risk to be killed, to disappear," said Arthur J. Eisenberg, co-director of the UNT center.

He hopes the database eventually will be nationwide.

For Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle, the DNA plan is a logical extension of the philosophy of the DPD prostitute diversion program, which is that prostitutes ought to be treated as victims.

"If you are a prostitute who is voluntarily giving your DNA under the belief that you may end up being a murder victim and you'd like for people to know who you are and your family to know, that's a pretty significant wake-up call – if you didn't have one already – of how dangerous it is, what you're doing," Kunkle said.