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Subject: Urgent need: New law citing numerous additional crimes for which police can DNA-swab suspects
Solve Crimes and Prevent Future Crimes | DNA Saves
Solve Crimes and Prevent Future Crimes | DNA Saves
Dear State Representative Sheryl Cole and State Senator Sarah Eckhardt of Central Texas,
As each of you of course already knows, I am a law-abiding and crime-prevention-minded, honest, privacy-respectful, permanently-alcohol-free, gainfully-employed, single adult white non-Hispanic non-
Christian male resident of Austin. I myself do not have any criminal-conviction record. I am also a current constituent of each of you very influential state lawmakers: I reside in each of your respective legislative districts.
Christian male resident of Austin. I myself do not have any criminal-conviction record. I am also a current constituent of each of you very influential state lawmakers: I reside in each of your respective legislative districts.
I am writing to each of you today to urge each of you to please author or sponsor a proposed new law in this 2021 session of the Texas Legislature.
I am referring to a proposed new law that significantly increases the total number and variety of specific contexts in which a public law-enforcement agency in Texas can legally DNA-swab a crime suspect or possible crime suspect without obtaining that suspect's prior permission.
Among the many additional specifically contexts that I personally believe should be more than sufficient justification for the Texas Legislature authorizing police to DNA-swab a suspect in Texas:
If police in Texas directly observe a motorist driving through a red light or red turn signal at a street intersection in our state. Motorists who drive through red lights at intersections are significantly more likely to commit a personal-injury crime in that and other contexts than are motorists who never or almost never drive through red lights at intersections. Any motorist who drives through a red light on any occasion endangers the safety and medical health of themselves, their passengers, other motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians at or near that intersection.
I was reminded of the urgent need for crime-prevention-minded increased DNA-swabs legislation when I read online today a very tragic factual online account about the so-called "Mopac Rapist" of the 1990s here in Austin, Texas. That account is currently provided online by the noble New Mexico-based non-profit group "DNA Saves" at their currently-copyrighted official website. An exactly-quoted factual statement about that serial-rapist, as reported online by "DNA Saves", is provided farther below in this letter.
There are numerous tangible advantages from the proposed major increase in the number of Texans and visitors to Texas whose DNA information is stored in computer data bases for law-enforcement agencies. Those advantages include:
(1) Reducing the amount of time and money that law-enforcement agencies in Texas need to devote or spend to solving crime cases in our state in which DNA traces can be obtained from the body or home or workplace of a victim or perpetrator or from the scene of a crime or near the scene of a crime.
(2) Reducing the risk of any law-enforcement agency in Texas making a "wrongful arrest" or arresting or unjustifiably detaining a crime suspect or possible crime suspect whose own DNA does not match to that of the perpetrator in a crime case.
(3) Reducing the total number of in-person interactions between police and private citizens, including patrol car exploratory drives through neighborhoods or districts in which officers stop the car and explore an area on foot, in which police need to interview possible suspects or possible informants in person in order to solve a crime case. This also helps to reduce the number of occasions in which private citizens allege that they were "targeted" or "discriminated against" or "abused" or "harassed" or "wronged" or "threatened" by police.
(4) Reducing the number of crime cases in which any particular racial or ethnic group or immigrant group or any visitors to Texas from a foreign nation or any political group or religious group alleges that a law-enforcement agency in Texas has "targeted" that entire group for detainments or arrests. DNA traces per se DO NOT identify the racial or ethnic identity or nation of birth of a possible suspect whose DNA was obtained or identified in a public law-enforcement agency's computer data base records.
(5) Increasing the number of successful criminal-law prosecutions of defendants in courtrooms around Texas.
(6) Reducing the number of criminal-law convictions in Texan courtrooms that are later overturned by a judge in a higher court of law.
The following is the exactly-quoted and very pertinent factual online real-life account about the so-called "Mopac (Expressway-area) Rapist" that I found today at the official "DNA Saves" website:
"Christopher Ted Dye raped three Austin women in their homes before the police first arrested him in 1993 for burglarizing a house. Unaware they had apprehended a serial rapist, authorities released the 34-year-old former auto mechanic on bail.
"Over the next six months, Dye raped four more women before being arrested a second time for burglarizing an apartment. He served two months in jail. For two more years, as the police searched for the Mopac rapist, nicknamed that because the attacks occurred near the expressway, Dye raped seven more women before finally being caught.
"When Austin Police Chief Stan Knee began championing DNA testing at the time of arrest, he had to look no further than Dye, the city’s most notorious serial rapist. 'He’s the perfect example of how we could have saved 11 (rape) victims.' Testing Dye upon his first burglary arrest could have led to a DNA match from his first three rapes."
More information about the noble non-profit group "DNA Saves" can be obtained by contacting that life-saving organization's founders, Dave and Jayann Sepich, 1711 Mountain Shadow Drive, Carlsbad, NM 88220. Their phone number: 575-361-1931 Their e-mail address: jsepich@dnasaves.org
State Representative Cole and State Senator Eckhardt, I hope to hear from each of you as soon as possible on whether each of you support a proposed new state law of this type for Texas.
If I don't hear back from either of you about this issue in the next week or two, I plan to then contact other state legislators. In that scenario, I will then politely explain to those other state legislators that I was not able to obtain sponsorship of a proposed bill of that type from my own duly-elected legislators for my own geographical area in Austin; and for that one cited reason I will need to know from them whether they are willing to sponsor or author a bill of that type.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved current member of the crime-prevention-minded and politely-non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"----a new and non-proselytizing religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements. I am also a former full-time employee in Austin of the Texas Department of Public Safety state-law-enforcement-agency.
My solo-occupancy efficiency-apartment-unit rental-home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments (a Belco Equities-affiliated complex), 8805 North Plaza Drive, Building 17, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
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