Reply #150: My "political sensibilities" have nothing to do with law enforcement.

[Goldmund]

They can use whatever is statistically shown to help them out the most while minimizing cases of wrongful police activity. I'm no expert on that. I was talking about an entirely different thing.

"I cannot take responsibility for how anybody but myself reacts to true data."

To be perfectly honest, I find it really, really difficult to believe that your intention in posting this was to discuss law enforcement techniques. But if you so claim, I won't question you.

Again, and I keep saying, over and over: this isn't about you personally, or about anything you said. I'm talking about the sentiment in this thread, and I've only ended up talking to you personally because I thought it was reasonable to assume that you would have expected this sentiment after posting that fact -- since this isn't a law enforcement board, but a political one, and one which -- for the lack of a better word, hates Rethugs; and people who find the fact that BTK was GOP relevant will overwhelmingly find it so from a political perspective, not a law-enforcement one.

So, if the only reason you brought this up is to discuss law enforcement, disregard my comments. I'm not talking about you or anybody in particular. I'm talking about this general sentiment.

Maybe I'll post a thread on the fascinating uses of DNA in forensics. I wonder if it'll get this big, or drop like a lead balloon.