Ravenwood - 05/26/05 06:45 AM
Usually when you want to cut down on crime you have police officers hang around more often. But Austria is considering taking the expensive, high tech approach.
Manfred Juraczka, a councilor in a Vienna district, said Monday he wants the city to register all dogs' DNA so that droppings left where people walk can be tested and the owner of the guilty dog punished.I cannot help but wonder if this isn't the first step toward registering human DNA."This method offers a multitude of unbeatable advantages," Juraczka said in a statement, adding that all who fail to pick up after their dogs "must count on being caught."
UPDATE: To save money, I recommend they implement something not unlike Maryland's 'Ballistic Fingerprint' database which photographs gun bullets and cartridges. You see, each dog's droppings are unique. Dogs could be registered and their droppings photographed and entered into a database. Police could then photograph rogue poop and use complex computer software to compare it against the database. It should work just as effectively as Maryland's system, and at a fraction of the time and cost of cumbersome DNA testing.
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What's the cost of a DNA test? I'm pretty sure it's far over $100. Pretty expensive for catching pooper-scooper dodgers. And to make the registry work, they would have to test every dog first so there was something in the database to match the rogue poop against. That is, suddenly the cost of dog licenses would rise by hundreds...
Posted by: markm at May 26, 2005 1:11 PMDon't you get the DNA of whoever the dog ate?
Posted by: Ron Hardin at May 26, 2005 1:49 PMMaryland's system works? or was that undiagnosed sarcasm?
Posted by: Captain B at May 26, 2005 5:48 PMI never said Maryland's system works. I said this should work just as well as Maryland's system.
Posted by: Ravenwood at May 26, 2005 6:09 PMI don't think it is over 100 dollars, but I could be wrong. At one point our Criminal Justice program had basic DNA test kits that a high school freshman could operate. I never got a price quote but my instructor said they were very reasonably priced. (Of course, we've used $5 drug field test kits which I think is quite high for only a few cents in chemicals.)
He doesn't use them anymore because they are more complex of a subject than he wants to teach and he can cover a lot more fields in the time needed to teach about DNA.
Posted by: Rhett at May 27, 2005 2:32 AMI forgot to add. It doesn't matter what the price is anyway since the taxpayers can pay for their own butt-screwing! Awe....government in action.
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