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Originally Posted by ken0042
I didn't look at the numbers, but has the murder rate gone down since DNA became available as evidence?
In the mid 90's they needed you blood at the scene (most famous case then was OJ's trial.) Now they can track you to the scene by sweat, hair, pretty much anything.
Stuff like that makes people think its just easier to give the ex her stupid Supertramp CD.
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I can't comment with certainty on whether the murder rate has gone down since DNA became available as evidence, but I would imagine any changes be casually correlative changes as opposed to causative.
I DO know that 77% of the 201 US prisoners released on exonerating DNA evidence since 1980 were falsely identified by an eyewitness.