An interesting footnote to the criminal profiling post.
The profilers blew it when they kept insisting that the Baton Rouge serial killer was a white male. The investigation got back on track thanks to DNA testing. Wired has a story on the company that did the test. Oddly, (or maybe sadly) the DA who prosecuted Derrick Todd Lee says this about the technology:
Tony Clayton, a black man and a prosecutor who tried one of the Baton Rouge murder cases, concedes the benefits of the test: "Had it not been for Frudakis, we would still be looking for the white guy in the white pickup." Nevertheless, Clayton says he dislikes anything that implies we don't all "bleed the same blood." He adds, "If I could push a button and make this technology disappear, I would."
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