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Clarification on NYPD's DNA collection practices
0:34:12
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Council Member Salaam seeks clarification on NYPD's DNA collection practices, specifically asking if everything discarded is collected for DNA. Deputy Commissioner Gerber clarifies this misconception.
- Gerber emphatically states that it is not NYPD's practice to collect DNA from all discarded items
- He corrects the misunderstanding that everything is tagged or collected for DNA analysis
Yusef Salaam
0:34:12
Just for clarity purposes, and I wanna I wanna ask this question given my ignorance in terms of the actual practice of what the NYPD does or what this database, how this how this stuff is collected.
0:34:31
I thought I heard you say that everything essentially is tagged or is collected.
0:34:40
This cup thrown in the trash, cigarette thrown in no matter what or who.
Michael Gerber
0:34:48
No.
0:34:49
That is I did not mean to say that.
0:34:51
Don't think I said that.
0:34:52
That is not our practice at all.
Yusef Salaam
0:34:53
Okay.
0:34:54
So then So