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Crime Scenes pt2
1908 – The first official fingerprint card was developed
1911 - Fingerprints are first accepted by U.S. courts as a reliable means of Identification.
- Dec. 21, 1911, The Illinois State Supreme Court upheld the admissibility of fingerprint evidence concluding that
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Crime Scenes
Alphonse Bertillion, a French anthropologist, devised method of body measurements to produce
a formula used to classify individuals. This formula involves taking the measurements of a persons
body parts, and recording these measurements on a card. This method of classifying and identifying
people became known as the Bertillion System.
1905 – U.S. Military adopts the use of fingerprints – soon thereafter, police agencies began to adopt the use of
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how finger prints wok pt3
comparative dactyloscopy. The Henry Classification System replaced the Bertillonage system as the primary method of fingerprint classification throughout most of the world.In 1901, Scotland Yard established its first Fingerprint Bureau. The following year, fingerprints were presented as evidence for the first time in English courts. In 1903, the New York state prisons adopted the use of fingerprints, followed later by the FBI. -
the history of finger printing pt2
● Fingerprints have a better chance of solving a crime than DNA... not because fingerprints are better evidence than DNA, but because of the sheer volume of fingerprint records stored in government databases. More fingerprint records are added to US Government (FBI and DHS) databases each year than were added to the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) database in the past 20 years. -
The history of fingerprint
● Established the first professional certification program for forensic scientists, the IAI's Certified Latent Print Examiner (CLPE) program in 1977. The fingerprint discipline has never claimed forensic fingerprint experts (latent print examiners) are infallible. For over four decades, the IAI's certification program has been issuing certification to those meeting stringent criteria and revoking certification for errors (quality assurance problems) such as erroneous identifications. -
How fingerprints work
he ancient Babylonians pressed the tips of their fingertips into clay to record business transactions. The Chinese used ink-on-paper finger impressions for business and to help identify their children.However, fingerprints weren't used as a method for identifying criminals until the 19th century.