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China had used handprints and fingerprints as evidence in crimes like burglary and robbery in early 200BC. To capture the handprint they would use clay seals.
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Coulier made and published findings about fingerprints and how they be developed and preserved.
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He began to create the first fingerprint database for the pattern types of Galton.
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The NYCSC, New York State Prison, and the Leavenworth Penitentiary started to use fingerprinting in there databases.
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The U.S Navy and U.S Marine Corps began to use fingerprinting in their databases.
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The FBI dropped the 12 point rules because they agreed that there was no basis for a minimum number of corresponding details to determine the identification.
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The FBI had manually processed 100 million fingerprints into their database.
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The INTERPOL automated fingerprint identification system had passed 150,000 sets of fingerprints.
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There is a database in India that is the worlds largest fingerprint system. It is called the Unique Identification Authority.
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The Department Of Homeland Security took over the AFIS. Making it the biggest fingerprint database in America.
